any of various ships designed for transporting troops and heavy equipment in amphibious warfare, capable of making assault landings directly onto a beach
Word origin
[1940–45]
Examples of 'landing ship' in a sentence
landing ship
It admits that landing ships are running at 80% over the original price.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Tankers are down from 11 to six; offshore patrol vessels from nine to five; landing ships from six to three.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Commissioned as a deck officer, he served on landing ships, becoming the commanding officer of one of them.