ship's husband

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The agent or broker who manages her accounts with regard to work performed, repairs, &c., under refit or loading.

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  • Husband

    I.e., the "house-band," connecting and keeping together the whole family. A man when betrothed was e...

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  • husband

    , or ship's husband. An agent appointed by deed, executed by all the owners, with power to advance...

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  • Ships

    Early used in foreign commerce by the Phoenicians (Gen. 49:13). Moses (Deut. 28:68) and Job (9:26) m...

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  • black ships

    The name by which the English builders designate those constructed of teak in India. ...

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  • corporal, ship's

    In a ship of war was, under the master-at-arms, employed to teach the sailors the use of small arms;...

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  • demonstration-ships

    Those kept in a certain state of preparation for war, though on a peace establishment. ...

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  • drill-ships

    A recent establishment of vessels in which the volunteers composing the Royal Naval Reserve are dril...

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  • lofty ships

    Once a general name for square-rigged vessels: "A mackerel sky and mares' tails Make lofty ships...

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  • munition ships

    Those which carry the naval stores for a fleet, as distinguished from the victuallers. ...

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  • reckoning, ship's

    The ship's position resulting from the courses steered, and distances run by log, brought up from th...

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  • ship's books

    The roll of the crew, containing every particular in relation to entry, former ships, &c. ...

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  • ship's lungs

    Dr. Hall's name for the bellows with which he forced the foul air out of ships. ...

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  • ship's papers

    Documents descriptive of a vessel, her owners, cargo, destination, and other particulars necessary f...

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  • ship's steward

    The person who manages the victualling or mess departments. In the navy, paymaster's steward. ...

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  • thwart-ships

    Across the ship, or from one side to the other. (See athwart.) ...

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  • troop-ships

    A class of vessel of excellent account, during war, in the hands of government; far preferable to hi...

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  • classification of ships

    A register made of vessels according to the report rendered in by special surveyors. (See navy and L...

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  • east-country ships

    The same as easterlings. ...

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  • iron-plated ships

    See armour-clad. ...

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  • woman and her husband

    A married couple, where the woman is bigger than her husband. ...

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  • crossing a ship's wake

    When a ship sails over the transient track which another has just passed, i.e. passes close astern o...

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  • filling a ship's bottom

    Implies covering the bottom of a ship with broad-headed nails, so as to give her a sheathing of iron...

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  • line-of-battle ships

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  • stationing a ship's company

    Arranging the crew for the ready execution of the evolutionary duties of a ship. ...

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  • verification of ship's papers

    In this necessary process it is declared that papers of themselves prove nothing, and require to be ...

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  • spoliation of a ship's papers

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  • veer a buoy in a ship's wake, to

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