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ABACK to ADMIRAL of the fleet
Vice-ADMIRAL to AFTER-SAILS
Vice-ADMIRAL
Rear-ADMIRAL
ADMIRALTY
ADVICE-BOAT
ADRIFT
AFLOAT
AFORE
AFT
AFTER
AFTER-SAILS
AGENT-VICTUALLER to ALL'S WELL
ALL bands high to ANCHOR
To drag the ANCHORS to To fish the ANCHOR
To sheer the ship to her ANCHOR to Top-ARMOUR
ASHORE to AUGER
AWEIGH to AZIMUTH COMPASS
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ADMIRALTY
ADMIRALTY (Amirauté, Fr.) the office of lord-high-admiral, whether discharged by one single person, or by joint-commissioners, called Lords of the Admiralty (this important and high office has seldom been entrusted to any single person, except princes of the blood; or to some nobleman meriting such distinction for his eminent services. In general the crown appoints five or seven commissioners, under the title of " Lords Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord-High-Admiral of Great-Britain," &c. All maritime affairs are entrusted to their jurisdiction. They govern and direct the whole royal navy, with power decisive in all marine cases, civil, military, and criminal, transacted upon or beyond sea, in harbors, on coasts, and upon all rivers below the first bridge sea-ward.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 6, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0018.html