We are a private, civilian ship with no weapons.
The private ship had no real defenses and was easily captured.
United Nations law requires all commercial and private ships to respond.
There was no place on the ship more private than this.
A private ship: Jackson could not make out an admiral's flag.
He'd already been all over the galaxy before he came back to see us, flying around in his own private ship.
She might have been a private ship, the work of one or two men, an attempt to pioneer in a new direction.
Few indeed could afford the high cost of either a private ship or interstellar passage.
The private ships were on contract to the British Government.
Now is a troop headquarters to be the private preserve of one ship, or what?