A useful class of persons, who transact the monetary affairs of officers, and frequently help them to the top branches of the profession. They are paid for their services by a percentage of 2-1/2.
·noun The place of business of am agent. II. Agency ·noun The faculty of acting or of exerting powe...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Payment pro operâ et labore, fixed by the prize act at five per cent. as a fair average, but it give...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Having to do with shipping; of or pertaining to ships or a navy; consisting of ships; as, naval...
Of or belonging to a ship, or, as now commonly adopted, to the royal navy; hence, naval stores, nava...
See hawse-box ...
The construction, or art and science, of building ships. See ship-building ...
A fleet or squadron of ships of war, fitted out for a particular service. ...
See cadet. ...
Greenwich is styled by eminence the Royal Hospital, yet the naval medical establishments in England ...
One belonging to the royal navy. Also, the person in charge of the stores in a royal dockyard abroad...
A body of volunteers, consisting of coasters and able merchant seamen, who are drilled for serving o...
A knowledge of the theory of ship-building, seamanship, navigation, nautical astronomy, and tactics....
All those particulars which are made use of, not only in the royal navy, but in every other kind of ...
The warlike evolutions of fleets, including such manœuvres as may be judged most suitable for attack...
A government vessel, appropriated to carrying stores and munitions of war to different stations. ...
See naval reserve. ...
H.M.S. Britannia, commanded by a captain and complement of officers for the primary training of nava...