"No, fifteen and one Gilgamesher we're using for a troopship.
"Space Viking"
Henry Beam Piper
When they sailed into harbour the Four Hundred immediately arrested two or three of the Parali and, taking the vessel from the rest, shifted them into a troopship and set them to keep guard round Euboea.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides
Christian Soldiers" was well played by a band on an Australian troopship, all singers and non-singers on our boat joining in.
"The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde""
George Davidson