ship's store

American  

noun

1. a retail store aboard a navy ship that sells toiletries, cigarettes, etc., to the ship's personnel.

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Example Sentences

Fathom Adonia made the first cruise from Miami to Cuba in more than half a century in 2016, T-shirts produced in Clandestina’s Old Havana design studio were on sale in the ship’s store, and the company’s products are now offered on Holland America cruises to the island.

From Seattle Times

Of the scanty ship's store he caused to be cleaned and boiled a hundred pounds of pork; small packages of meat-biscuit, bread-dust, and tea were carefully sewed up, all weighing three hundred and fifty pounds; and the whole was intrusted to the returning convoy, who gave emphatic assurances that these treasures, more precious than gold to those for whom they were intended, should be promptly and honestly delivered.

From Project Gutenberg

Nan started guiltily, laughed with them at her own absent-mindedness, bought photographs of herself and her friends for her memory book, and then, with them, went into the ship’s store to buy souvenirs for friends back home.

From Project Gutenberg

The facility includes a restaurant, bar, fresh water pool, ship�s store and a Customs and Immigration office.

From Time Magazine Archive

Carlsen told how he had been wet to the skin for two weeks, how he had eaten poundcake washed down with Rhine wine from the ship's store, warmed his hands over a candle, and slept jammed between the tilted deck and bulkhead of the radio room.

From Time Magazine Archive