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Definition of Patrol ship
1. Noun. A vessel assigned to patrol an area.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patrol Ship
Literary usage of Patrol ship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"28, another patrol ship was sunk and the crew captured. The French gunboat Surprise
was sunk by German submarines at Funchal, Madeira. the troop ship Karnak ..."
2. Human Rights Watch World Report 1992 by Human Rights Watch (Organization (1991)
"On May 25, a Kenyan patrol ship transferred forty-eight refugees, most of them
women and children, to a leaking fishing boat with broken engines; ..."
3. Soviet Military Policy Since World War II by Richard Felix Staar (1986)
"112), in 1977-78 the Krivak class was redesignated from BPK to missile "patrol
ship" (SKR). The other former BPK classes were evidently redesignated "rocket ..."
4. The Dover Patrol 1915-1917 by Reginald Bacon (1919)
"THE DOVER PATROL ship only. Fire the life out of the guns. Try, unless you have
other data, twenty-five yards loss in range per round for the extra big ..."
5. Two Thousand Questions and Answers about the War: A Catechism of the Methods by The Review of reviews (1918)
"While the submarine generally manages to submerge before the patrol-ship can
reach it, there is almost always a surface disturbance, due to the motion of ..."
6. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"Near Tralee, early on Good Friday morning, she was held up on suspicion by a
British naval patrol ship, the Bluebell, and was being taken to Queens- town ..."
7. Two Thousand Questions and Answers about the War: A Catechism of the Methods by Julius Washington Muller (1918)
"While the submarine generally manages to submerge before the patrol-ship can
reach it, there is almost ..."
8. The Fighting Fleets: Five Months of Active Service with the American by Ralph Delahaye Paine (1918)
"I climbed into our little boat which had been left adrift and stayed there until
a British patrol ship came along and picked me up. ..."
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