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Noun
ship's company (plural ships' companies)
- (nautical) The entire crew of a ship, including the officers
1719, Daniel Defoe, chapter 10, in The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe:[T]he whole ship's company consisted of sixty-five men.
1850, Herman Melville, chapter 33, in White Jacket:[T]he regulations enjoin the attendance of the entire ship's company, from the corpulent Captain himself to the smallest boy who strikes the bell.
1863 April 7, “The Prize Steamer Aries”, in New York Times, retrieved 3 Aug. 2012:The Aries had a ship's company of twenty-four men, besides four passengers.
1988 December 25, “Pueblo's Veterans Look Back on '68 in Anger”, in New York Times, retrieved 3 Aug. 2012:Before the outgunned ship was overtaken and captured, a crewman was wounded, and he later died. The 82 other members of the ship's company underwent 11 months of brutal captivity.
- (nautical, possibly nonstandard) All of the occupants of a ship, including crew and passengers.
1879, Anthony Trollope, chapter 8, in John Caldigate:The whole ship's company, captain, officers, quarter-masters, passengers, and all, were quite sure that she had succeeded in getting a promise of marriage from him.
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