CORPORAL of a Ship of War, an officer under the master at arms, employed to teach the officers the exercise of small arms, to attend at the gangway on entering ports, and to see that no spirituous liquors are brought into the ship, except by permission; to extinguish all lights at a certain hour, &c.
CORPORAL of a Ship of War
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