Combat Stores Ship
Combat stores ships, or Storeships were originally a designation given to captured ships in the Age of Sail and immediately afterward, used to stow supplies and other goods for naval purposes. Modern combat store ships are operated by the United States Navy and the Royal Navy. Vessels of three classes, Sirius and Mars (For the USA)and the Fort Class (For the UK), provide supplies, including frozen, chilled and dry provisions, and propulsion and aviation fuel to combatant ships that are at sea for extended periods of time. In other navies, the term for the same type of ship is generally replenishment oiler, fleet replenisher, or fleet tanker and should not be confused with Fast combat support ships or tenders.
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Famous quotes containing the words combat, stores and/or ship:
“The combat ended for want of combatants.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“Piles of gold are not as good as stores of grain.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Now launch the small ship, now as the body dies
and life departs, launch out, the fragile soul
in the fragile ship of courage, the ark of faith
with its store of food and little cooking pans
and change of clothes,”
—D.H. (David Herbert)