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• Railway

  ·noun A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and ...

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• -ship

  ·noun A suffix denoting state, office, dignity, profession, or art; as in lordship, friendship, chan...

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• Ship

  ·noun Pay; reward. II. Ship ·vi To embark on a ship. III. Ship ·noun Any large seagoing vessel. I...

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• The Ship

  1) Rent out of Corner House in Thames Street, being the sign of the Ship in parish of St. Mary at Hi...

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• ship

  [from the Anglo-Saxon scip]. Any craft intended for the purposes of navigation; but in a nautical se...

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• Ship

  No one writer in the whole range of Greek and Roman literature has supplied us with so much informat...

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• Aerial railway

  ·add. ·- An elevated cableway. II. Aerial railway ·add. ·- A stretched wire or rope elevated above ...

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• Cash railway

  ·add. ·- A form of cash carrier in which a small carrier or car travels upon a kind of track. ...

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• Railway Approach

  South out of Cannon Street leading to the Station (P.O. Directory). First named 1910. ...

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• Railway Place

  South out of Fenchurch Street at No.63 (P.O. Directory). In Aldgate Ward. First mentioned: O.S. 184...

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• marine railway

  A term which has been applied to a slip for hauling vessels on to repair. ...

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• North London Railway

  North from Liverpool Street along the western boundary of Bishopsgate Ward Without to the northern b...

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• Battle ship

  ·add. ·- An armor-plated man-of-war built of steel and heavily armed, generally having from ten thou...

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• Burgess-ship

  ·noun The state of privilege of a burgess. ...

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• Gauger-ship

  ·noun The office of a gauger. ...

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• Hostess-ship

  ·noun The character, personality, or office of a hostess. ...

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• Light-ship

  ·noun A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of danger...

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• Lode-ship

  ·noun An old name for a pilot boat. ...

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• Log-ship

  ·noun A part of the log. ·see Log-chip, and 2d Log, ·noun, 2. ...

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• Ship-rigged

  ·adj Rigged like a ship, that is, having three masts, each with square sails. ...

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• Tank ship

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Tank vessel. ...

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• Ship Alley

  1) An alley so called in parish of St. Giles without Cripplegate, 36 Eliz. {Lond. I. p.m. III. 201)....

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• Ship Court

  West out of Old Bailey at No.66, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M.. 1677-Elmes, 1831). Site now...

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• Ship Tavern

  1) On the east side of Water Lane. A passage at the upper end of Custom House Court leads through th...

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• Ship Yard

  1) East out of the Minories, towards the northern end, in Portsoken Ward (Hatton, 1708-Elmes, 1831)....

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• fire ship

  A wench who has the venereal disease. ...

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• ship shape

  Proper, as it ought to be. SEA PHRASE, ...

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• to re-ship

  To ship again; to ship what has been conveyed by water or imported.--Webster. Much used in all our ...

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• british ship

  May be foreign built, or rebuilt on a foreign keel which belonged to any of the people of Great Brit...

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• carpenter, ship

  A ship-builder. An officer appointed to examine and keep in order the hull of a ship, and all her ap...

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• chandler, ship

  Dealer in general stores for ships. ...

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• chartered ship

  One let to hire to one or more, or to a company. A general ship is where persons, unconnected, load ...

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• clean ship

  A whale-ship unfortunate in her trip, having no fish or oil. ...

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• convict-ship

  A vessel appropriated to the convicts of a dockyard; also one hired to carry out convicts to their d...

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• crack-ship

  One uncommonly smart in her evolutions and discipline, perhaps from the old English word for a fine ...

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• cupola-ship

  Captain Coles's; the cupola being discontinued, now called turret-ship (which see). ...

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• discovery ship

  A vessel fitted for the purpose of exploring unknown seas and coasts. Discovery vessels were formerl...

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• fire-ship

  A vessel filled with combustible materials, and fitted with grappling-irons, to hook and set fire to...

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• flag-ship

  A ship bearing an admiral's flag. ...

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• fore-ship

  An archaic form of forecastle of a ship; it means the fore-part of a vessel. ...

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• free ship

  A piratical term for one where it is agreed that every man shall have an equal share in all prizes. ...

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• general ship

  Where persons unconnected with each other load goods on board, in contradistinction to a chartered s...

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• guard-ship

  A vessel of war appointed to superintend the marine affairs in a harbour, and to visit the ships whi...

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• gunnery-ship

  A ship fitted for training men in the practice of charging, pointing, and firing guns and mortars fo...

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• handy-ship

  One that steers easily, and can be worked with the watch; or as some seamen would express it, "work ...

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• hospital-ship

  A vessel fitted to receive the sick, either remaining in port, or accompanying a fleet, as circumsta...

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• ladrone ship

  Literally a pirate, but it is the usual epithet applied by the Chinese to a man-of-war. ...

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• light ship

  In contradistinction to laden; a ship is said to be light when she has no cargo, or merely in ballas...

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• lode-ship

  A pilot boat, which was also employed in fishing; it is mentioned in statute 31 Edward III. c. 2. ...

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• log-ship

  A small line about 100 fathoms long, fastened to the log-ship by means of two legs, one of which pas...

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• man ship!

  Is to range the people on the yards and rigging in readiness to give three cheers, as a salute on me...

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• pennant-ship

  Generally means the commodore, and vessels in the employ of government. It is also an authority dele...

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• pivot-ship

  In certain fleet evolutions, the sternmost ship remains stationary, as a pivot upon which the other ...

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• prison-ship

  One fitted up for receiving and detaining prisoners of war. ...

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• pump ship!

  The order to the crew to work the pumps to clear the hold of water. ...

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• rated ship

  Synonymous with post-ship in former times; the term ship alone now infers that it is a captain's com...

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• rear-ship

  The sternmost ship of a fleet. ...

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• receiving-ship

  At any port, to receive supernumerary seamen, or entered or impressed men for the royal navy. ...

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• register ship

  A Spanish plate-ship or galleon. ...

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• re-ship

  To ship again, or ship goods that have been imported or conveyed by water. ...

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• shield-ship

  A vessel fitted with one or more massive iron shields, each protecting a heavy gun or guns. The name...

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• ship-boy

  Boys apprenticed to learn their sea-duties, but generally appointed as servants. ...

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• ship-breaker

  A person who purchases old vessels to break them to pieces for sale. ...

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• ship-broker

  One who manages business matters between ship-owners and merchants, in procuring cargoes, &c., for v...

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• ship-builder

  Synonymous with naval constructor. ...

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• ship-building

  , or naval architecture The art of constructing a ship so as to answer a particular purpose either...

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• ship-chandler

  A tradesman who supplies ships with their miscellaneous marine stores. (See material men.) ...

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• ship-contractor

  The charterer or freighter of a vessel. ...

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• ship-craft

  Nearly the same as the Anglo-Saxon scyp-cræft, an early word for navigation. ...

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• ship-guns

  Those cast expressly for sea-service. ...

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• ship-keeper

  An officer not much given to going on shore. Also, the man who has charge of a ship whilst she is wi...

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• ship-language

  The shibboleth of nautic diction, as tau'sle, fok'sle, for top-sail, forecastle, and the like. ...

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• ship-last

  See last. ...

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• ship-launch

  See launch. ...

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• ship-load

  The estimated lading or cargo of a vessel. ...

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• ship-log

  See log-book. ...

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• ship-lord

  A once recognized term for the owner of a ship. ...

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• ship-money

  An imposition charged throughout this realm in the time of Charles I., but which was declared illega...

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• ship-owner

  A person who has a right of property in a ship. The interest of part-owners is quite distinct, so th...

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• ship-propeller

  See screw-propeller. ...

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• ship-shape

  In colloquial phrase implies, in a seamanlike manner; as, "That mast is not rigged ship-shape;" "Put...

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• ship-sloop

  Commanders were appointed to 24-gun sloops, but when the same sloops were commanded by captains, the...

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• ship-star

  The Anglo-Saxon scyp-steora, an early name for the pole-star, once of the utmost importance in navig...

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• ship-timber

  Contraband in time of war. ...

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• store-ship

  A government vessel appropriated for carrying munitions and stores. ...

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• tall ship

  A phrase among the early voyagers for square-rigged vessels having top-masts. ...

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• turret-ship

  A vessel, more or less armoured, fitted with one or more heavily plated revolving turrets, each carr...

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• unwholesome ship

  One that will neither hull, try, nor ride, without labouring heavily in a sea. Also applied to a sug...

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• war-ship

  Any ship equipped for offence and defence; whereas man-of-war generally signifies a vessel belonging...

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• wholesome ship

  One that will try, hull, and ride well, without heavy labouring in the sea. ...

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• High-churchman-ship

  ·noun The state of being a high-churchman. ...

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• Ship Tavern Passage

  North~west out of Lime Street, at No.21, to 76 Gracechurch Street (P.O. Directory). In Bishopsgate W...

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• Ship Yard, Minories

  See London Prentice Yard and Sheppy Place. ...

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• british-built ship

  Such as has been built in Great Britain or Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man, or some of th...

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• chainage of ship

  An old right of the admiral. ...

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• chapelling a ship

  The act of turning her round in a light breeze, when she is close hauled, without bracing the head-y...

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• docking a ship

  The act of drawing her into dock, and placing her properly on blocks, in order to give her the requi...

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• frapping a ship

  The act of passing four or five turns of a large cable-laid rope round a ship's hull when it is appr...

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• naval store-ship

  A government vessel, appropriated to carrying stores and munitions of war to different stations. ...

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• ocean-going ship

  In contradistinction to a coaster. ...

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• ship cut down

  One which has had a deck cut off from her, whereby a three-decker is converted into a two-decker, an...

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• ship raised upon

  One of which the upper works have been heightened by additional timbers. About the year 1816 several...

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• swifting a ship

  Either bringing her aground or upon a careen; also passing cables round her bottom and upper-works, ...

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• trans-ship, to

  To remove a cargo from one ship to another. ...

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• Ship Court, Bartholomew Lane

  See Capel Court. ...

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• back, of a ship

  The keel and kelson are figuratively thus termed. ...

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• bulk of a ship

  Implies the whole cargo when stowed in the hold. ...

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• carcass of a ship

  The ribs, with keel, stem, and stern-post, after the planks are stripped off. ...

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• caulking of a ship

  Forcing a quantity of oakum, or old ropes untwisted and drawn asunder, into the seams of the planks,...

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• elevation, in ship-building

  A vertical and longitudinal view of a vessel, synonymous with sheer-draught and sheer-plan. In other...

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• eyes of a ship

  (See eyes of her.) ...

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• fitting out a ship

  The act of providing a ship with sufficient masts, sails, yards, ammunition, artillery, cordage, anc...

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• freight of a ship

  The hire, or part thereof, usually paid for the carriage and conveyance of goods by sea; or the sum ...

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• loading of a ship

  See cargo and lading. ...

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• rig of a ship

  The disposition of the masts, cut of sails, &c., whether square or fore-and-aft rigs. In fact, the r...

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• track of a ship

  The line of a ship's course through the water. (See wake.) ...

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• tread of a ship or keel

  The length of her keel. ...

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• trees of a ship

  The chess-trees, the cross-trees, the rough-trees, the trestle-trees, and the waste-trees. ...

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• what ship is that?

  A question often put when a jaw-breaking word has been intrusively uttered by savants. ...

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• wind a ship or boat, to

  To change her position by bringing her stern round to the place where the head was. (See wending.) ...

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• work a ship, to

  To adapt the sails to the force and direction of the wind. ...

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• Great Eastern Railway Goods' Receiving Office

  On the west side of Laurence Lane at No. 23, in Cheap Ward, on the western boundary of the ward (P.O...

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• Great Northern Railway Goods' Station and Depot

  On the north side of Royal Mint Street (P.O. Directory). Covers the site of Merchant Taylors' Almsh...

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• captain of a merchant ship

  Is a certificated officer in the mercantile marine, intrusted with the entire charge of a ship, both...

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• fore-part of a ship

  The bay, or all before the fore-hatches. ...

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• lay up a ship, to

  To dismantle her. ...

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• mate of a merchant-ship

  The officer who commands in the absence of the master, and shares the duty with him at sea. (See chi...

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• putting a ship in commission

  The formal ceremony of hoisting the pennant on the ship to be fitted. This act brought the crew unde...

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• supernatant part of a ship

  That part which, when afloat, is above the water. This was formerly expressed by the name dead-work....

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• training-ship for naval cadets

  H.M.S. Britannia, commanded by a captain and complement of officers for the primary training of nava...

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• captain of a ship of war

  Is the commanding officer; as well the post-captain (a title now disused) as those whose proper titl...

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• gunner, of a ship of war

  A warrant-officer appointed to take charge of the ammunition and artillery on board; to keep the lat...

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• master of a ship-of-war

  An officer appointed by the commissioners of the navy to attend to the navigating a ship under the d...

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• training-ship for the merchant service

  A vessel properly equipped with instructors and means to rear able-bodied lads for the merchant serv...

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