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Storeship
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Store´ship`
n.1.A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.


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The T-AKE will replace aging, single-mission ships such as Kilauea-class ammunition ships and Mars- and Sirius-class combat stores ships that are nearing the end of their service lives.
Three previous ships carried the name: the armored cruiser ACR 6 named in 1914, the WW II cruiser CL 53 and the combat stores ship AFS 6.
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