guard ship

Then we'll have to line them up and fight until we attract at least half of the guard ships from the array.

She served at Antigua as a guard ship but was wrecked in 1811.

The vessel spent the remaining months of 1864 at Key West as a guard ship.

In 1799 she was converted to a troopship, and four years later to a guard ship.

She was then assigned as guard ship at Hull until 1890.

She served as a guard ship on the British coast in 1914 and early 1915.

She was used as a guard ship from 1860 and was sold in 1898.

She had been temporarily transferred to the Baltic to serve as a guard ship.

She continued as the guard ship until sold in November 1864.

How had he gotten past the portmaster's armed guard ships?