The phrase "armed ship" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a ship that is equipped with weapons, typically in a military or naval context.
Example: "The navy deployed an armed ship to patrol the waters and ensure maritime security."
Alternatives: "military vessel" or "weaponized ship".
The report warned against risks from the seizure of the plutonium cargo aboard a lightly armed ship, to a devastating attack using high explosives, which would create the equivalent of a huge dirty bomb at sea.
At the time it was the most heavily armed ship in the world.
Hamelin's early cruises were successful: operating initially off the Nicobar Islands, Vénus captured the HEIC armed ship Orient on 26 July.
To avoid pirates, five multimillion-dollar yachts involved in the Volvo Ocean Race were transported on an armed ship through the Indian Ocean.
The scheme will ensure, among other things, that the security firms themselves have adequate indemnity cover.There do not yet seem to have been any claims, or lawsuits, over the use of armed ship guards, says Tom Heinan of International Registries (which runs the Marshall Islands' shipping register).
The heavily armed ship that sank on Saturday fits the profile of past North Korean spy boats -- a small number of antennas atop the wheelhouse, a few token items of fishing gear, like squid lights, and powerful engines for quick getaways.
He added that, as always, "ships are armed, ships are fueled, ships are provisioned".
They would sail in privately owned armed ships, robbing merchant vessels and pillaging settlements belonging to a rival country.
While Japan has held the islands for more than a century, China also claims title and has sent armed ships and planes from civilian maritime agencies to assert a presence around them.
The only ships on the lake following the American retreat from Quebec were a small fleet of lightly armed ships that Benedict Arnold had assembled following the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775.
The only ships on the lake following the American retreat from Quebec were those of a small fleet of lightly armed ships that Benedict Arnold had assembled following the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775.
