Ships Steward? Ros --- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Miller" <ian.r.n.miller@btopenworld.com> To: <SOG-UK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 8:36 PM Subject: Re: [SoG] ahoy > At 18:12 08/09/05 +0200, you wrote: > >Could anyone with salt in there blood tell me what a > >SHIPS STEADE (Royal Navy) > >did in the good old days, or is this a spelling mistake.. > >All the best > >Eddy in bavaria > > The "Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea" (my maritime bible) has no > reference to anything like your query. I would guess that it is a spelling > mistake. However, I am always willing to be corrected... > > > Ian Miller > Puddletown > Dorset > >