hospital ship

noun

a ship built to serve as a hospital, especially used to treat the wounded in wartime and accorded safe passage by international law.

First recorded in 1675–85

Since the outbreak of hostilities, however, she has been transformed into a hospital ship at Port-Arthur.

The train arrives just in time to meet the hospital ship at the port.

"There goes a hospital ship," and a Commander of one of H.M. Patrols pointed out to me a transport full of wounded.

No lights anywhere, except the green lights on a hospital ship far away.

One had no sooner received its melancholy freight, than it left the islets, on its way to the hospital-ship of the fleet.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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