fighting ship
fighting vessel
combat ship

They were fighting ships and should have been ready for trouble.

Now it would seem that we may be forced to become a fighting ship yet again.

"What are you doing on a fighting ship at such an age?

"Now, what is this supposed to be on the bridge of a fighting ship?"

"It is the first time I have given a fighting ship to a pirate."

Now 28 years old and probably the Navy's oldest fighting ship.

Then a group of us decided to build fighting ships, like the pirates', and attack them on the water.

It was elaborate inside but not in the manner of a fighting ship.

Will you serve me as the captain of a fighting ship?"

The one in the middle is the only worthy fighting ship."

"Two fighting ships guard the near side of the comet."

There was no longer a single fighting ship operational in the whole Cluster.

"But you're right that he's a balance against the others, him and his fighting ship.

Bridges and I agree that it's a fighting ship, sir.

The heavy fighting ships kept appearing daily out of the sky.

Then they ran into the fighting ships of the Regent.

Fighting ships screamed toward the death machine from two sides.

So it was his added responsibility to preserve every fighting ship he possibly could.

The captain himself remained where he was, at the helm of his fighting ship.

The wind had to change before his fighting ships could sail against the Spanish.

She was not a fighting ship, rather a support ship.

I am not a fighting ship under your command.

We're too used to fighting ships at the same technological level."

"How will we know which are the fighting ships?"

It was the moment that could have broken the Ulysses, as a fighting ship, for ever.