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factory ship

[ fak-tuh-ree ship, -tree ]

noun

  1. a whaling ship equipped to process killed whales and to transport the oil and by-products.
  2. Also called fac·to·ry trawl·er [fak, -t, uh, -ree traw-ler, -tree]. a large fishing vessel, usually a stern trawler, equipped for processing and freezing fish at sea.


factory ship

noun

  1. a fishing boat that processes the fish that are caught
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of factory ship1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

They are driven to Milford Haven, where they are loaded on to a factory ship which cooks and freezes them en-route to Asia.

From BBC

In some past investigations, the NTSB, such as in the 2008 sinking of the Alaska Ranger factory ship, has reached a different probable cause of the sinking of a vessel.

The Coast Guard begins two weeks of hearings Monday into what caused the flooding that sank a Washington-based factory ship off Alaska, forcing the evacuation of its crew of 46.

Take, for example, the skull of a southern right whale that arrived in the museum's collections in 1938 by way of the factory ship Ulysses.

But only Japan continues to sail a fleet of ships half way across the globe to hunt whales in the Antarctic and maintains a large factory ship that can process hundreds of whales at sea.

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