Interesting, but just don't have anyone look for the ship's cat.
You might want to think about using another term instead of Earth Ship though, using it three times in a row is a bit too repetative. Perhaps something like this?
BOS13 wrote:
"Put it on the primary viewscreen," Captain Prott ordered. Complying to the order, the officer tapped in a set of commands, and the image on the main screen resolved to show a Battleship class starship. Moving closer to better see the unresponsive vessel, Prott commented "It's definately one of ours*, guessing I'd say it's the Bangkok, it was lost in this area several weeks ago. Continue the hailing messages, but prepare a boarding team, we'll cut our cruise short and bring her back."
Not sure if you wanted comments in the same thread or not, if so perhaps the Thunderer could merge this.