P
PACKET or PACKET-BOAT to PARSLING
PARTING to PAYING-OFF
PAYING-OUT, or PAYING-AWAY to PILOT
PIN of a block to PLANKING
PLAT to POLE-MAST
Under bare POLES to PRAM or PRAME
PRATIC to PROP
PROTEST to PURSER
PROTEST
PROW
PUDENING
PULLING
PUMP
PUMP-spear
PUNT
PURCHASE
PURSER
Search
Contact us
PURSER
PURSER, an officer appointed by the lords of the admiralty, to take charge of the provisions of a ship of war, and to see that they are carefully distributed to the officers and crew, according to the instructions which. he has received from the commissioners of the navy for that purpose.
 |
Reference Works |  |
© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 223, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1003.html