Navy
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The whole shipping, taken collec tively, belonging to the government of an independent nation, and appropriated for the purposes of naval warfare. It does not include ships belonging to private individuals, nor (in the United States, at least) revenue vessels or transports in the semce of the war department. See Brightly, Dig. U. S. Laws.