factory ship

noun

: a ship equipped to process a whale or fish catch at sea

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The factory ship was another new vehicle designed for the RDA and their hunting group. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Dec. 2025 The second Renko novel, Polar Star (1989), in which the investigator is exiled to a Soviet factory ship in the Arctic, is my favorite of the whole series. Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 16 July 2025 By 1930, there were forty-one factory ships in the Southern Ocean, taking nearly thirty thousand blue whales in a single season. Lucy Jakub, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020 With the factory ships gone, both Canada and the United States had a chance to re-create a sustainable cod fishery. Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 If the store orders directly from the manufacturer, make sure your purchase contract requires the store to provide a copy of its factory invoice for the carpet, showing your name and the style, color and amount of carpet the factory shipped. Kevin Brasler, Washington Post, 9 July 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1851, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of factory ship was in 1851

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“Factory ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factory%20ship. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.

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