| 单词 | landing ship |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslanding ship landing ship n. (also landing ship tank, landing ship tanks) a large landing craft for the transport of tanks and other vehicles. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > ship transporting troops or stores > landing craft well-boat1690 horse-boat1907 tank landing lighter1917 landing craft1940 Siebel ferry1942 tank landing ship1942 landing ship1943 storm boat1945 1943 Life 11 Oct. 34/2 The first is the LST (Landing Ship, Tank), 327 ft. long and displacing 5,500 tons. 1944 Daily Tel. 11 July It [sc. the port of Cherbourg] will be open shortly for craft of the L.S.T. type (landing ship tanks). 1944 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 27 Oct. 1943–11 Apr. 1944. 166 (caption) Landing Ship Tanks. These two landing ships tanks close inshore at Bougainville are unloading supplies and equipment for the U.S. Marines and army troops. 1945 T. Blore Turning Point—1943 vi. 51 Cedric and I put off in a motor fishing vessel to find our Tank Landing Ship. 1951 W. S. Churchill Second World War (1952) V. ii. 26 The ‘landing-ship, tank’..had first been conceived and developed in Britain in 1940. 1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze iv. 106 Rear-Admiral Burrough, with the cruiser Kenya and four destroyers, was to escort the two landing ships. 1966 D. Holbrook Flesh Wounds 93 Paul's Squadron embarked on its Landing Ship Tank late on the 3rd June. < as lemmas |
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