less commonly transship v. [f. TRANS- + SHIP v.]
1. trans. To transfer from one ship to another; also transf., from one railway train or other conveyance to another. Also absol.
1792. Ld. Macartney, Jrnl., in Barrow, Life (1807), II. 180. All the baggage and presents [were] put on board the large junks, to be transshipped into smaller ones. Ibid. (1797), Emb. to China, II. i. 4. In order to tranship them.
1802. C. Robinson, Adm. Cas., III. 247. He is not bound … either to tranship or to repair.
1813. Wellington, Lett., 26 June, in Gurw., Desp. (1839), X. 461. I am afraid it will be necessary to tranship the ordnance &c. into smaller vessels.
1846. Addison, On Contracts, II. ii. § 4 (1883), 494. If the vessel becomes disabled … the master is bound to tranship and forward the cargo, if he has the means of transhipment at hand.
1876. Callis, Cutlery, 181. It was the practice of German manufacturers … to … transship them without allowing them to land.
1900. Blackw. Mag., Oct., 559/1. He didn’t give them time to transship enough provisions.
2. intr. Of a passenger: To change from one ship or other conveyance to another.
1879. Atcherley, Trip Boërland, 264. At East London … we transhipped into the steamship African.
1892. E. Reeves, Homeward Bound, 87. After going a mile or two we stopped, got out, and transhipped into another train.
1892. Daily News, 18 Oct., 5/6. Passengers going by her had not to transship either at Hong Kong or Shanghai.
1895. Ramsay, Paul the Trav., 283. He [Paul] had to transship in Troas.
3. Comb. in which tra·nship is app. = transhipment: as tranship-shed, a shed at a railway joint station for the transference of goods from one railway to another; tranship-train, a train running in connection with a steamer into which the passengers tranship; tranship-van: see quot.
1903. Westm. Gaz., 14 Jan., 5/1. We have ‘tranship,’ or road-vans, specially appointed to work on branches and at stations where there is not the heavy traffic. These take goods from a certain starting-point to be delivered at a number of roadside stations. Ibid. (1903), 21 Feb., 7/1. Inviting seven English and Scotch companies to co-operate in the matter of a tranship shed at Carlisle.
1904. Daily News, 22 Oct., 9. When near the new station at Talacre the engine of a heavy tranship train jumped an obstruction…. The guard of the disabled tranship hurried Chesterwards.
Hence Transhipping vbl. sb. (also attrib.).
1801. Sir Wm. Scott, in C. Robinson, Adm. Cas., III. 259. if he [the master] had not the means of transhipping.
1816. Tuckey, Narr. Exped. R. Zaire, iii. (1818), 88. The transhipping the stores … being finished.
1840. Evid. Hull Docks Comm., 121. The transhipping of them, either by rafts or small vessels.
1892. Nation (N. Y.), 1 Sept., 155/1. A better transshipping point.
