The troopship had arrived and we were to embark on the morrow.
We now received orders to prepare to embark on the troopship Euphrates for Portsmouth en route for Aldershot.
From up forward the port bow gun of the troopship turned itself loose with a sharp report.
Save for the guard, and those on other active duty, the passengers on the troopship slept soundly.
From northward and slightly ahead of the course of the troopship of the Ninety-ninth a swift destroyer could be seen darting over the waves.
Barracouta for Jamaica, and proceeded, towards the end of February, 1864, to Honduras, in the troopship Tamar.
Murray and Lieutenant Upton, embarked at Port Royal, Jamaica, in thetroopship Resistance, for the relief of the West African garrisons.
Dalhousie to the troopship Serapis, took place in the Bombay Harbour, in the presence of a large number of the deceased Officer's sorrowing friends and comrades.
Dalhousie for conveyance to Bombay, where it was to be transhipped to the troopship Serapis.
When our troopship left France your folks were expecting to follow in about ten days or two weeks.
A little French destroyer, pearl-grey in the evening light, steamed past us, and the French sailors waved their arms, and danced a welcome to this troopship of their allies.
I was to embark that morning on a troopship bound for the Dardanelles.
On the 18th, the troopship Orontes arrived from Malta, but through some unaccountable blundering of the authorities, she came without a single soldier.
His chum tramped on, but he reached the main-deck of the troopship still carrying two carbines, for as yet Mick had not re-appeared.
The men who shipped in Tasmania spent nine weeks on the transports before finally disembarking in Egypt; while some of the New Zealanders had even a longer spell of troopship life.
I had to travel in a troopship to Gallipoli to learn that all I thought I knew about the Turk was not so.
When they sailed into harbour the Four Hundred immediately arrested two or three of the Parali and, taking the vessel from the rest, shifted them into a troopship and set them to keep guard round Euboea.
The next morning they were at Folkestone, where the big troopshiplay in the harbour.
Perhaps a mile or more out at sea a great Destroyer proudly spurned the waves; she was to guard the troopship along her perilous passage.
So Bill he sneaks a corporal's breeks and a belt of pipeclayed hide, And splices them on to the jibsail-boom like a troopship on the tide.
Embarked in a troopship at Bombay, Bent and his fellow-soldiers sailed not unwillingly for a land spoken of by report as a country which, though wild and new, was a pleasanter place to live in than scorching sun-baked India.
Still, they do get a troopship once in a while," spoke up another soldier, in a serious tone.
I'd trust the best troopship fleet we'll ever send over the ocean to the guarding care of a dozen young Yankee naval commanders of your stripe.
Neither troopship nor destroyer is showing lights, so the Huns couldn't use their periscopes.
The troopship fleet is going to be punctual to the minute," Darrin remarked to his watch officer.
If they missed on their first try, the Huns would have to run their submersibles on the surface in order to overtake the troopship fleet for another chance.
Darrin was some distance astern of the rearmost ships of the troopship fleet.
Destroyer andtroopship guns, up near the head of the line, had suddenly begun blazing away.
We know, also, just how many destroyers under our flag can be taken from patrol duty to safeguard the troopship fleet.
This troopship was one of the pair that led the fleet.
No troopship had been struck to-day, but the fine work might be easily undone by carelessness on the part of either hydroairplane or destroyer commanders.
One of their bitterest quarrels came after he had, for the second time, in the Red Sea, jumped overboard from the troopship and rescued a private soldier.
That meant, apparently, that he had twice jumped off the deck of a troopship to rescue what the girl called "Tommies", who had fallen overboard in the Red Sea and such places.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "troopship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
