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
In the Navy List of 1837, 132 vessels are named.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
“On all ‘occasions of ceremony or state,’ as the Navy List says, Jack, we will resort to your original designation, and you will be Nanungamanoo again.”
From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Gordon Stables
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 Ernest Hartley Coleridge
The great basins were crammed with craft of kinds never known before on any Navy List.
From Sea Warfare by Rudyard Kipling
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