NAVAL Crown, among the ancient Romans, a crown adorned with figures of prows of ships, conferred on persons who in sea engagements first boarded the enemy's vessel. See CROWN.

NAVAL Engagement. See Tactics, Naval.

NAVAL Stores, comprehend all those particulars made use of, not only in the royal navy, but in every other kind of navigation; as timber and iron for shipping, pitch, tar, hemp, cordage, sail cloth, gunpowder, ordnance, and fire arms of every sort, ship chandlery wares, &c.

NAVAL Tactics, the military operations of fleets. See Tactics, Naval.