research ship
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- A ship that is designed and used for research.
- 1960, Lester Rosenblatt, The Design of Modern Oceanographic Research Ships, page 213:
- . Experience also shows that a research ship spends from one quarter to one half of her sea time on scientific station when the sustained speed seldom exceeds 3.5 knots.