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| Space Tramp | ||
| An old, slow spacecraft. |
| "...The High Command hasn't announced what ship it is, but it must be a fast one - not a space tramp." |
| From The Invisible World,
by Ed Earl Repp. Published by Amazing Stories in 1940 Additional resources -
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By analogy to "tramp steamer", referring to a ship without fixed schedule or scheduled ports of call. This kind of ship was also called an "ocean tramp".
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