Navy List
Britishnoun
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After being struck off Britain’s Navy List because of a financial scandal in 1814, he began a new career as a mercenary.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
He never rose above lieutenant, and disappears from the Navy List after July 1800.
From The Life of Captain James Cook by Kitson, Arthur
In the first half of the last century the Navy List contained officers of four grades only.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
In the English Navy List, not long ago, one of our gallant admirals used to figure as "Billy Douglas."
From Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 by Dante Alighieri
Tours, Travels, Essays, too, I wist, And Sermons, to thy mill bring grist; And then thou hast the Navy List, My Murray.
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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