So they continued for many years, till the naval college was established, and schoolmasters were placed on board ships to afford the midshipmen instruction.
A considerable change was now about to be introduced in the character of the guns used on board ships of war.
About the same period matchlocks were introduced on board ships.
There may, indeed, have been real plague on board ships of war: Stow says that it was in the fleet in 1603, and there is evidence of its existence now and again in the Venetian galleys of an earlier day.
Men employed on board shipsto fit the standing and running rigging, or to dismantle them.
Formerly a petty officer onboard ships of war, whose employment was to see that the decks were kept clean.
The priest appointed to perform divine service onboard ships in the royal navy.
Some light is thrown upon the state of health on board ships of war on the home station by Dr William Cockburn, physician to the fleet, afterwards the friend of Swift, who calls him "honest Dr Cockburn.
The rocking of the earth was most violent, the sea retreated like a sudden immense ebb and filled again like a sudden immense flood, the effect of the commotion being felt on board ships a hundred and fifty leagues out in the Pacific.
Men imprisoned on board ships of war, scattered over the ocean and on distant stations, how could they apply to Mr. Lyman in London and give in their names?
I have no doubt of doing near ten times the duty that is now done on board ships, without using salt water in the boiler, as at present.
I shall now make drawings agreeable to my experiments for actual performance on board ships.
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