Examples of 'depot ship' in a sentence
Meaning of "depot ship"
This phrase refers to a vessel or ship used as a base or support for a navy or commercial fleet. It serves as a floating station for supplies, repairs, and maintenance of other ships in the fleet
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She was disarmed and thereafter used as a depot ship.
A submarine tender is a type of depot ship that supplies and supports submarines.
Converted to a whale oil depot ship.
She was thereafter used as a depot ship for the new dreadnought battleship Giulio Cesare.
She was reassigned for service as a seaplane depot ship at Brindisi.
Destroyer depot ship See destroyer tender.
New submarine depot ship.
Submarine depot ship See submarine tender.
She was disarmed to become a depot ship at Plymouth.
Used as a depot ship on the Soviet Pacific coast.
Subsequently she became a depot ship at Portsmouth.
HMS Tamar before her conversion to a floating depot ship.
HMS Gibraltar was the depot ship for the squadron.
In the Allied invasion of Normandy she was a depot ship.
Aorangi was a troop ship and depot ship in the Second World War.
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Alessandro Volta was a Regia Marina submarine depot ship.
Following the war, she was used as a depot ship until sold for scrapping.
Antonio Pacinotti was a Regia Marina submarine depot ship.
At that time, another depot ship was already in service in Hong Kong.
She served her later years as a storeship and depot ship based in Jamaica.
HMS Forth was depot ship for the 2nd and 3rd submarine flotillas.
HMS Centaur designated as depot ship.
Achilles was recommissioned in 1901 as a depot ship at Malta under a succession of different names.
She was used as a fleet storage ship, and then a submarine depot ship.
HMS Medway was the first purpose-built submarine depot ship constructed for the Royal Navy.
She was based at Gareloch, Scotland but was used primarily as a depot ship.
Her engines were removed in 1901 when she became a depot ship at Sheerness for a destroyer flotilla.
On 5 July she was recommissioned in Esquimalt as a depot ship.
The harbour contained the submarine depot ship Black Watch with the German submarine U-711 moored alongside.
At the same time Sagres ( II ) was renamed Santo André and reclassified as depot ship.
Lombardia was converted into a depot ship for submarines in 1906.
HMS Vindictive was a repair ship before being converted to a Home Fleet destroyer depot ship in 1945.
She remained in use as a depot ship until disposed of in 1920, and sold for scrap.
A torpedo intended for the cruiser USS Chicago exploded under the depot ship HMAS Kuttabul, killing 21.
A Don class submarine depot ship was named Magomet Gadzhiyev in the 1960s.
In 1909 she was converted into a torpedo boat depot ship and renamed Dvina.
By 1923 she had become the depot ship for the Submarine Periscope School at Portland.
Re Umberto was laid up in Genoa in 1912 and became a depot ship.
In 1965 she was reclassified as a submarine depot ship and renamed HNoMS Horten.
In November 1939, Pretoria was requisitioned by the Kriegsmarine and used as a U-boat depot ship.
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