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

It offers 30- and 50-amp electrical hookups, cable and telephone, wireless Internet service, diesel and gas pumps, a ship's store, and both a pump-out station and a pump-out boat.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Downtown Marina's ship's store, however, serves as a de facto visitors' hub and has maps and guide pamphlets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here we bought in again a store of fresh provisions, especially beef, pork, mutton, and fowls, and the captain stayed to pickle up five or six barrels of beef to lengthen out the ship's store.

From The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Defoe, Daniel

Then they slowly dragged the big craft across the plateau on rollers from the ship's store room.

From Loot of the Void by Sloat, Edwin K.

And they must build, for the ship's store of provisions was none too large, and the captain impatient to be off again before famine set in.

From Ten Great Events in History by Johonnot, James