Sentence examples for dock ship from inspiring English sources

A group of 19 students and faculty from the MIT Security Studies Program toured the amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego.

The Ponce, an amphibious transport dock ship, and two amphibious assault ships, the Saipan and the Gunston Hall, sailed from Norfolk today.

Nonetheless, in a Pentagon news conference with Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mr. Gates said he had ordered an amphibious assault ship, the Kearsarge, and an amphibious transport dock ship, the Ponce, to the Mediterranean.

And there is precedent for the Navy to intervene in the migrant crisis: In 2013, a Navy crew rescued more than 100 Somali migrants from a raft in the central Mediterranean, taking them aboard the amphibious transport dock ship San Antonio.

Today US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel deployed the USS Mesa Verde, an amphibious transport dock ship, to the Arabian Gulf, according to a Department of Defense statement.

After witnessing the bombardment of Beirut's beaches and airport, his family joined the hundreds queued to board the U.S. transport dock ship Trenton last Sunday.

The waterfront land first became available after the port authority decided in the early 1980's that it was no longer practical to dock ships at the piers below Brooklyn Heights.

"We were getting to the point with our harbor pilots [the locals who dock ships] where we were at the limits of comfort," said Key West City Manager Jim Scholl.

Some will train for six months or a year; others will be aboard ships like the carrier Abraham Lincoln in Washington State, or the transport-dock ship Juneau in Japan by February.

And the Navy, after a crash development program, has moved a converted amphibious transport and docking ship, the Ponce, into the Persian Gulf to serve as the Pentagon's first floating staging base for military operations or humanitarian assistance.

In the other sections he divides the image — of a docking ship, a train ride, dancing girls — that turns one side into a mirrored reflection of the other, and then he sets the two sides into kinetic play.