a room or apartment in a ship where any of the officers usually resides. There are many of these in a large ship; the principal of which is designed for the captain or commander. In ships of the line this chamber is furnished with an open gallery in the ship's stern, as also a little gallery on each quarter. The apartments where the inferior officers or common sailors sleep and mess are usually called BIRTHS, which see.

The bed places built up for the sailors at the ship's side in merchantmen are also called cabins.