mother ship in English

noun
1
a large spacecraft or ship from which smaller craft are launched or maintained.
Diligence carries extensive engineering workshops and can provide emergency electrical and fresh water supplies, making her an ideal mother ship for smaller craft engaged on relief work.

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1. A rope ladder swung from the mother ship.

2. It was also used as a mother ship for the experimental rocket-engined Bisnovat 5 in 1948–49.

3. In recovery, the aircraft would approach the mother ship from underneath and link up with the trapeze using the retractable hook in the aircraft's nose.

4. Description Astromeda is an action game where the objective is to pick up fellow astronauts drifting in space, reach the alien mother ship and destroy it

5. At Chittagong anchorage, if a lighter vessel is required to cast off from the mother ship, due to heavy swell and/or bad weather, all time lost will not count as laytime.

6. At Chittagong anchorage and/or at Mongla anchorage, if a lighter vessel is required to cast off from the mother ship, due to heavy swell and/or bad weather, all time lost will not count as laytime.