Meaning of ship's company | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The entire crew of a ship, including the officers
2. All of the occupants of a ship, including crew and passengers.
   nonstandard, possibly

Examples

“[T]he whole ship's company consisted of sixty-five men.”

“[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.”

“The Aries had a ship's company of twenty-four men, besides four passengers.”

“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.”

“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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