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    mother ship, mothership or mother-ship is a large vehicle that leads, serves, or carries other smaller vehicles. A mother ship may be a maritime ship...
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  • Mother Ship is an album by American organist Larry Young, recorded in 1969 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1980. The AllMusic review by...
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  • that test launches for its fleet of two White Knight Two mother ships and five or more SpaceShipTwo tourist suborbital spacecraft would take place from...
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  • Look up mother ship or mothership in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A mothership is a large vehicle that leads, serves, or carries other smaller vehicles...
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    Nation of Islam (redirect from Mother Plane)
    that Fard Muhammad will soon return aboard a spaceship, the "Mother Plane" or "Mother Ship", to wipe out the white race and establish a utopia. Members...
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  • mother ship which moves along the edge of the game board. Mother ships can deploy up to three explorer ships onto the face-down grid. Explorer ships are...
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    history Mother ship Nautical operations Naval architecture Naval ship Navy Nuclear marine propulsion Propulsion Sailing Sailor Ship burial Ship transport...
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    to be carried aloft and drop launched from under the wing of a B-52 mother ship. Air Force NB-52A, "The High and Mighty One" (serial 52-0003), and NB-52B...
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  • An airborne aircraft carrier is a type of mother ship aircraft which can carry, launch, retrieve and support other smaller parasite aircraft. The only...
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    factory ships can also function as mother ships. The basic idea of a mother ship is that it can carry small fishing boats that return to the mother ship with...
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    little or no on-board living accommodation. They normally work with mother ships, from which they are launched and recovered and which provide living...
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    gravity assistance is when an aircraft is released from a larger mother ship or mother craft. This may be because the daughter craft is incapable of taking...
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    An amphibious assault ship is a type of warship employed to land and support ground forces on enemy territory during an armed conflict. The design evolved...
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  • showing Mike Donovan and his son, Sean, trying to escape from a Visitor mother-ship with Visitor troopers in pursuit. Mike is knocked down by laser fire...
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    Starship (redirect from Star ship)
    Hypothetical travel between galaxies IXS Enterprise – Conceptual interstellar ship Mother ship – Large vehicle that leads, serves, or carries other smaller vehicles...
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  • part of a planned series of films. On July 2, 1996, an extraterrestrial mother ship enters Earth's orbit and deploys saucers, each 15 mi (24 km) in diameter...
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  • as a ship's tender, it is a smaller vessel that is launched from a mother ship, and has the ability to transport people or cargo between ships, or to...
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    MotherShip (VMS) Eve (Tail number: N348MS) is a carrier mothership for Virgin Galactic and launch platform for SpaceShipTwo-class Virgin SpaceShips....
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    mother ship was accomplished by the pilot pulling the nose back to disengage from the hook. In recovery, the aircraft would approach the mother ship from...
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    HNLMS Tromp (F803) (category 2001 ships)
    transport ship MV Lubeck, which was under attack from two pirate skiffs. Tromp launched her helicopter, which forced the whaler mother ship to stop. Tromp...
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    1994 for use by Orbital Sciences (now part of Northrop Grumman) as a mother ship for the Pegasus, a small-lift launch vehicle. As of October 2022[update]...
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    and stored on the decks of larger fishing vessels which functioned as mother ships. Banks dories have long overhangs at the bow and stern which helps them...
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    Ansari X Prize and was immediately retired from active service. Its mother ship was named "White Knight". Both craft were developed and flown by Mojave...
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    which is carried aloft and air launched by a larger carrier aircraft or mother ship to support the primary mission of the carrier. The carrier craft may...
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    meet again and flies off in the mother ship; the party then faces the player as the credits roll behind them. Mother was developed by Ape and published...
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    A naval ship (or naval vessel) is a military ship (or sometimes boat, depending on classification) that is used by a navy. Naval ships are differentiated...
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    2014. Mother-ship for UUVs. Mother-ship for UUVs. Universal test platform for new designs, weapons and military equipment. Jane's Fighting Ships, 1999-2000...
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    Canada's first submarine depot ship was HMCS Shearwater. The term used in the Chilean Navy is "submarine mother ship", as for example the BMS (buque...
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    support ship (US Navy hull classification symbol: AOE) is a type of replenishment auxiliary ship. Different from traditional logistic ships, the fast...
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    Disposal Mother Ship (New Ship of the Maritime Self-Defense Force), Ships of the World. Vol. 550. 300-ton Underwater Disposal Mother Ship (New Ship of the...
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