Personal property; sale of effects; or the auction of the property of deceased officers and seamen:
"The effects of that sail
Will be a sale of effects."
The effects of officers who die on board are not generally sold; but should they be submitted to auc...
The Sailor's Word-Book
When a seaman dies on board, or is drowned, his effects are sold at the mast by auction, and the pro...
See effects, of dead men sold by auction "at the mast." ...