Navy

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• navy

  Any assembly of ships, whether for commerce or war. More particularly the vessels of war which, belo...

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• Navy blue

  ·add. ·- Prussian blue. ...

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• Volunteer navy

  ·add. ·- A navy of vessels fitted out and manned by volunteers who sail under the flag of the regula...

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• Navy Office

  On the south side of Crutched Friars and east of Seething Lane. In Tower and Aldgate Wards (Strype, ...

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• navy office

  The Fleet prison. Commander of the Fleet; the warden of the Fleet prison. ...

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• navy agents

  Selected mercantile houses, about fourteen, who manage the affairs of officers' pay, prizes, &c., fo...

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• navy bills

  Bills of removal, transfer, &c., are not negotiable, nor can they be made other use of. ...

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• navy board

  The commissioners of the navy collectively considered, but long since abolished. ...

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• navy transport

  See transport. ...

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• navy-yard

  A royal arsenal for the navy. ...

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• Old Navy Office

  See Navy Office. ...

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• commissioners of the navy

  Certain officers formerly appointed to superintend the affairs of the navy, under the direction of t...

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• comptroller of the navy

  Formerly the chief commissioner of the navy board, at which he presided. ...

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• surveyors of the navy

  Two officers who formerly sat at the navy board, being invested with the charge of building and repa...

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• accountant-general of the navy

  Superintendent of pay and general accounts of the navy. ...

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• lieutenant, in the royal navy

  The officer next in rank and power below the commander. There are several lieutenants in a large shi...

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• pay of the royal navy

  is settled by act of parliament. In the merchant service seamen are paid by the month, and receive t...

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• wages or pay of the royal navy

  is settled by act of parliament. In the merchant service seamen are paid by the month, and receive t...

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• victualling-yards for the royal navy

  Large magazines where provisions and similar stores are deposited, conveniently contiguous to the ro...

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• volunteering from a merchantman into the navy

  Any seaman can leave his ship for the purpose of forthwith entering into the royal navy; and thus le...

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