forward 58
Capts. of the Maintop 2 Barber 1
------------- Afterguard 1 Purser's Steward 1
------------- Mast 1 Captain's Steward 1
Ship's Cook 1 Captain's Cook 1
Volunteers, First Class 3 Gun-room Steward 1
Gunner's Crew 5 Gun-room Cook 1
Carpenter's Crew 4 Steward's Mate 1
Sailmaker's crew 1 Able Seamen }
Gunner's Yeoman 1 Ordinary Seamen } 29
Boatswain's ditto 1 Landmen }
Carpenter's ditto 1 Boys, Second Class 5
Cook's mate 1 ----- Third Class 5
--- Widows' Men 3
Carry forward 58 ---
107
Marines:-- 1 Lieutenant; 1 Serjeant; 1 Corporal;
1 Drummer; 14 Privates. 18
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Total 125

The last odd entry of three widows' men was an official fiction (now
abolished) by which the pay of so many imaginary persons was
transferred to a fund for the relief of the widows of commissioned and
warrant officers. Real men are now allowed in their places.

If any other ship be paying off at the same time, it is well worth
trying to get some of her best men to enter for the ship fitting out.
People who have been for several years together in a comfortable ship
feel unwilling to part, and the prospect of continuing still
companions, often influences them to volunteer in considerable
numbers, if other circumstances appear suitable. When this takes
place, the men generally transfer their whole kit at once, see their
names placed on the new ship's books, and obtain what is called
"long-leave" of absence to visit their friends, after depositing a
portion of their ready money in the hands of the commanding-officer
until their return. These men almost always form a valuable part of a
ship's crew, and, I am convinced, the practice will become more
general of removing direct from one man-of-war to another, whenever
the system of frequent payments shall be established in the Navy. The
sailors will then learn the proper use of money, and will acquire, in
consequence, more orderly, decent, and rational h