Definition of "navy-list" [navy-list]

• An official account of the officers of the British navy, with a list of the ships, published quarterly. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Miss W------ were prodigiously glad to see him and they all three began to talk of old times and old acquaintances; for when Mrs. Blodgett was a rich lady at Gibraltar, she used to have the whole navy-list at her table, -- young midshipmen and lieutenants then perhaps, but old, gouty, paralytic commodores now, if still even partly alive."
• "Now, as far as the officers themselves are concerned, so far from having any objection to it, I wish, for their own merits and the good-will that I bear them, that they were incorporated into our navy-list; but as long as they command vessels of the above description, in the event of a war, I will put a case, to prove the absurdity and danger which may result."
• "He did not want abilities; but he had no curiosity, and no information beyond his profession; he read only the newspaper and the navy-list; he talked only of the dock-yard, the harbour, Spithead, and the Motherbank; he swore and he drank, he was dirty and gross."