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.

Origin of hospital ship

First recorded in 1675–85

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Streets were empty, restaurants were deserted, and a hospital ship was docked not far from the Javits Center.
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Since the outbreak of hostilities, however, she has been transformed into a hospital ship at Port-Arthur.
Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail | Oliver George Ready
The train arrives just in time to meet the hospital ship at the port.
Lest We Forget | John Gilbert Thompson
"There goes a hospital ship," and a Commander of one of H.M. Patrols pointed out to me a transport full of wounded.
War and the Weird | Forbes Phillips
No lights anywhere, except the green lights on a hospital ship far away.
The War on All Fronts: England's Effort | Mrs. Humphry Ward

One had no sooner received its melancholy freight, than it left the islets, on its way to the hospital-ship of the fleet.
The Wing-and-Wing | J. Fenimore Cooper

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