The construction, or art and science, of building ships.
See ship-building
·noun Construction, in a more general sense; frame or structure; workmanship. II. Architecture ·nou...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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The Sailor's Word-Book
The book of (Genesis 4:17,20,22) appears to divide mankind into two great characteristic sections, v...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·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...
·add. ·- British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that...
·add. ·- All that architecture which, since the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, about 1420, ha...
A useful class of persons, who transact the monetary affairs of officers, and frequently help them t...
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A fleet or squadron of ships of war, fitted out for a particular service. ...
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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...