parent ship

So it was possible for the parent ship to come down to earth and the first occupation base to be set up.

Slowly the life raft began to move away from the shadow of its parent ship.

These were taken to the parent ship, and subjected to chemical examination.

It deposited us on its parent ship, a 40-foot fishing vessel.

There was a clear view, since most of the viewport projected beyond the parent ship.

It had left a parachute behind and now went back to space to rendezvous with its parent ship.

Ship's boats ordinarily aren't named at all, unless they bear the name of the parent ship.

Some shuttles had already risen from the planets and headed toward their parent ships.

Target detection is carried out using the parent ship's surveillance radars.

Most of them had died in the parent ship's bad air, their carcasses tossed out to lighten ship.

All squadrons, fall back to your parent ships.

Though it stood to reason at least one of them held fuel for short flights that would have been wasteful for the parent ship.

Now it flew parallel to the parent ship, upside down, with nose pointed astern.

The thin reed of sound humming in their ears provided a guide to bring the flitter back to the parent ship.

Solid fuel launchers exploded and blasted the lifeboat clear of the parent ship.

They died when they headed reluctantly back to the Niccola-and detonated two miles from their parent ship.

As soon as this had cleared its jump field the parent ship vanished towards its destination, light years away.

All three of them hurried to unload the supplies and instruments, for the LB had a time setting to return it to the parent ship.

Sea Wolf is not a "fire-and-forget" missile; it relies on target data from the parent ship all the way to intercept.

The amphibians were used to provide their parent ships with reconnaissance, anti-submarine protection, artillery spotting and general support.

Of course Karr could not see the booster-rocket shape of the baby fugueships as they appeared from outside the parent ship.

She then began service at the Nore as parent ship of the 4th Division, Home Fleet.

What its spotting range is,how it spots, and just why it doesn't lash about and go for the parent ship isn't my pigeon.

Designated the "parent ship" for destroyers based there, Bridgeport remained at Brest through the armistice and into the autumn of 1919.

By the time the lifeboats headed back to the parent ship, McCann was in a position to give a fairly accurate generalized report to Kent.