Collocations for ship - noun

wooden | enemy | cargo, container, cruise, merchant, pirate, sailing, supply

fleet

board, come/go aboard, come/go on board | sail | steer | moor
The ship is now permanently moored on the Thames in London.

build, launch | load (sth onto), unload (sth from)
The dockers were loading the cargo onto the ship.

christen, name | abandon
The captain gave the order to abandon ship.

go down with
The captain went down with his ship.

scuttle, sink, torpedo | jump
Some of the crew jumped ship (= left it illegally) at Gibraltar and disappeared.

carry sb/sth
a ship carrying more than a thousand people

arrive, dock | anchor, be/lie at anchor
Their ship lay at anchor at the mouth of the harbour.

depart, go, leave, put to sea, sail, set sail | be wrecked, collide with sth, hit sth, run aground | capsize | go down, sink

aboard/on/on board a/the ~
They are now on a ship bound for New York.

by ~
There was no time to send the goods by ship.

~ to/(bound) for

the bow/stern of a ship, the captain/crew of a ship, the deck of a ship