A ship that is intended to serve as a mobile hospital with appropriate equipment and personnel.

(historical) A ship that carried Irish emigrants escaping the potato famine, usually with an extremely high death rate onboard.

(idiomatic) A well-organized and highly disciplined organization.

A marine cargo vessel.

(nautical) A cargo vessel designed to carry cargo prepacked into containers.

(nautical) To depart from a ship, especially without permission. / (figuratively) To leave something, especially suddenly or rapidly.

A severe inflammation of the lungs of cattle, caused by a bacterium of the genus Pasteurella, sometimes seen following the stress of transport to market under poor conditions.

(historical) A wooden ship set alight and then sent floating into an enemy flotilla, with the aim of spreading the fire among them.

Any ship manned by pirates, especially a large wooden sailing ship armed with cannons and flying a Jolly Roger, as stereotyped in literature and film.

plural of fire ship