The attendance of a lieutenant and party in the arsenal, for stowing, procuring stores, &c.
·noun A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun That which is due; payment. II. Duty ·noun Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage...
The exercise of those functions which belong to the service, and are carried out from the highest to...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The artificers in a dockyard. In former times an established declaration of war between the mates an...
An imposition laid on merchants' goods by the Long Parliament, for the redemption of captives in the...
An officer, marine, or seaman in his watch below, &c. An officer is sometimes put "off duty" as a pu...
The operations of the officer in charge of the deck or watch. ...
The captain's night orders. ...
In an effective state for service. ...
Riggers, leading men, and others, ordered to perform the dockyard or port duties, too often superann...
Are criminal by law, even in the crew of a merchant-ship. Such poltroonery is very rare. ...
This is introduced into a naval vocabulary, not as wanting explanation, but that in recording the mo...