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Guard ship   /gɑrd ʃɪp/   Listen
Guard ship

noun
1.
A warship (at anchor or under way) required to maintain a higher degree of readiness than others in its squadron.





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"Guard ship" Quotes from Famous Books



... humming out from Weald. It would be armed, of course. It came droning, droning up the forty-odd thousand miles from the planet. Calhoun swore. He could not call his students and tell them what was toward. The guard ship would overhear. He could not trust untried young men to act rationally if they were unaware and the guard ship arrived and matter-of-factly attempted to ...
— This World Is Taboo • Murray Leinster
... oxen, wagons, &c.—have two there now. This ferry is about fifty miles from Richmond. There is a large camp of Cavalry about eight miles from the ferry on the south side of the river. Gunboats can come up as far as Boler's. Captain Moon lives opposite the guard ship, on the Virginia ...
— Between the Lines - Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After • Henry Bascom Smith


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