Meaning of weather ship | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A ship, usually permanently on station, tasked with reporting meteorological data.
2. A ship to the windward of another; considered an advantage in naval warfare.

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Examples

“If the weather ship be of inferior force, it enables her to keep out of action much longer, and, though a poorer sailer, she may do so until the intervention of night increases the chances of escape.”

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