The ship was forced to go back to port to be repaired.

A secondary possibility is, as you said, the ship was forced to land, perhaps on some other part of the planet.

Unfortunately, a ship arrives and Sky is forced to leave with a mysterious girl.

To protect herself the ship would be forced to do almost everything without g. And she hadn't been designed for that.

The ship was soon forced to turn back to France.

One ship suffered mechanical failure just out of port and was forced to turn back.

They met almost no opposition but the ships came under air attack shortly after 0630 and were forced to remain at general quarters all day.

Foreign ships were forced to fish two hundred miles offshore.

The French ships were then overwhelmed and forced to surrender.

In the end the ships were forced to pull out.