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MOTHERSHIP [6 records]

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Record 1 2022-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Salted fish motherships: The wet fish are salted, cured and put into barrels on these vessels. These are then stored in dry or refrigerated holds, depending upon the degree of salting.

Key term(s)
  • salted-fish mother ship

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Types de bateaux
  • Pêche commerciale
CONT

Navires-mères saleurs. Ces navires travaillent avec des chalutiers [...] qui leur rapportent le poisson frais. Ce poisson est salé et séché à bord du navire-mère et conservé dans des tonneaux entreposés dans des cales sèches ou réfrigérées, selon le degré de salage.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Factory motherships may process the cargo received from the support vessels. Fresh fish can be wholly processed ..., whereas products received from freezer and factory trawlers are stored only.

Key term(s)
  • factory mother ship

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Types de bateaux
  • Pêche commerciale
CONT

Navires-mères usine. Ces navires permettent le transbordement en mer du poisson frais qui est ensuite transformé et conservé à bord du navire-mère de la même façon que sur les chalutiers-usines.

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Collaboration with the FAO
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

Tuna motherships use the anchorage to receive fish from purse-seine fishing boats.

Key term(s)
  • tuna mother ship
  • tuna fishing mother ship

French

Domaine(s)
  • Collaboration avec la FAO
  • Types de bateaux
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 4 2018-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Special Water Transport
  • Trade
Key term(s)
  • mothership

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Transports par bateaux spéciaux
  • Commerce
DEF

Dans une chaîne de transport maritime, navire le plus grand qui utilise des unités plus petites pour l'éclatement ou le regroupement des cargaisons à certaines escales.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tipos de barcos
  • Transporte por barcos especiales
  • Comercio
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Record 5 2018-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Special Water Transport
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

The term mother ship is often used for the vessels accompanying a number of fishing vessels or catcher boats to fishing grounds where they stay for months. Supplies necessary for sustained operations of the catchers are contained within the mother ship and distributed during the season. ... An example of a true mother ship is the tuna long-line mother ship which carries her catchers on the deck.

Key term(s)
  • mothership

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Transports par bateaux spéciaux
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 6 2009-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Spacecraft
  • Launching and Space Maneuvering
CONT

The centralized formation flying topology ... consists of a "mothership" as the primary spacecraft, and "daughter" spacecraft as secondary spacecraft. The "mothership" acts as the control point for the formation. Centralized formation navigation and/or science processing takes place on the "mothership". Crosslinks serve as conduits for the daughter spacecraft to pass information to the "mothership" from the "daughter" spacecraft. Likewise, the "mothership" spacecraft supplies information to the "daughter" via the crosslinks. "Daughter" spacecraft do not communicate with each other via crosslinks. The "mothership" orchestrates mission objectives based on autonomous on-board formation control processing. The "mothership" is a single point of failure due to its unique capabilities and its centralized role within the formation.

CONT

Many of the LEM's components, ... would be identical to those in the Apollo mother ship.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Engins spatiaux
  • Lancement et manœuvres dans l'espace
DEF

Vaisseau qui commande la formation en vol de satellites secondaires.

CONT

Après s'être séparée de son vaisseau-mère américain Cassini à la nuit de Noël, Huygens débuta une plongée vertigineuse de trois semaines vers Titan.

Spanish

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