I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ cruise , sailing
▪ cargo , container , factory , hospital , supply , transport , whaling
▪
a factory ~ that is equipped for freezing and canning
▪ civilian , commercial ( esp. AmE ), merchant , passenger
▪ military , naval , navy , troop
▪ enemy
▪ amphibious , landing , surface
▪
missiles from surface ~s
▪ ocean-going
▪ wooden
▪ passing
▪
The crew was rescued by a passing ~.
▪ pirate , slave
▪
an 18th-century slave ~
… OF SHIPS
▪ fleet
VERB + SHIP
▪ board , come aboard , come on board , go aboard , go on board
▪ be aboard , be on board
▪ sail
▪ manoeuvre/maneuver , pilot , steer
▪ moor
▪
The ~ is now permanently moored in Buenos Aires.
▪ command
▪ build , launch
▪ load , unload
▪
The ~ had already been unloaded.
▪ load sth onto , unload sth from
▪
The dockers were loading the cargo onto the ~.
▪ christen , name
▪ abandon
▪
The captain gave the order to abandon ~.
▪ go down with
▪
The captain went down with his ~.
▪ scuttle , sink , torpedo
▪ attack , damage , destroy
▪ jump
▪
Some of the crew jumped ~ (= left it illegally) and disappeared.
SHIP + VERB
▪ carry sb/sth
▪
a ~ carrying more than a thousand people
▪ arrive , dock
▪ anchor
▪
The ~ anchored in the bay.
▪ be at anchor , lie at anchor
▪
Their ~ lay at anchor in the bay.
▪ depart , go , leave , put out to sea , put to sea , sail , set sail
▪ be wrecked , run aground
▪ capsize
▪ go down , sink
▪ collide with sth , hit sth
▪ be equipped for/with sth
PREPOSITION
▪ aboard a/the ~ , on a/the ~ , on board a/the ~
▪
They are now on a ~ bound for New York.
▪ by ~
▪
There was no time to send the goods by ~.
▪ ~ bound for , ~ for , ~ to
PHRASES
▪ the bow of a ~ , the deck of a ~ , the stern of a ~
▪ the captain of a ~ , the crew of a ~
II.
verb
Ship is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ merchandise