The phrase "a large ship of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific type or category of a large ship, often followed by a noun that specifies its purpose or function.
Example: "The museum featured a large ship of exploration that had traveled the world's oceans."
Alternatives: "a big vessel of" or "a sizable boat of".
Dr Lehman's organisation uses small boats in its operations, although they would eventually like to build a large ship — of the water going kind.
After an hour and a half in pursuit, with darkness falling, the East Indiaman Exeter came alongside the French Médée, giving the impression by use of lights that she was a large ship of the line.
It's either a trick of the light (and there's not much light in space), the result of each part of a large ship coming out of hyperspace separately, or the Empire has developed some kind of cloaking device for its major ships.
On a large ship, the weight of such hitchhikers everything from algae to barnacles to small colonies of coral can weigh as much as 10 tons, says marine ecologist Susan Williams of the University of California, Davis, Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay.
It's as elongated and sharp as "the overturned keel of a large ship," says volcanologist Dan Dzurisin of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington.
Waking in Oslo fjord is just spectacular, because, although you are on a large ship, the sides of the fjord tower above you and you get a real sense of its scale.
"It's almost like trying to stop a large ship in the middle of the ocean," he said.
If you use the metaphor of these leaders as the rudder of a large ship moving through the water, Welch's argument becomes clearer.
Public broadcaster NHK showed images of a large ship ramming into a breakwater in Kennuma city, Miyagi prefecture.
The first application is for detecting the wake behind large jets, which can toss smaller planes much as the wake of a large ship can swamp a rowboat.
"We were concerned there were a number of protesters with children that were entering into the waterway, in the path of a large ship.
