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C . . The uncials of Companion of the most honourable Order of the Bath. This grade was recently distributed so profusely that an undecorated veteran testily remarked that if government went on thus there would soon be more C.B.'s than A.B.'s in the navy.
C . . Coast-guard (which see).
C . . Mark for men sent by civil power.
CAAG . _See_ KAAG.
CABANE . A flat-bottomed passage-boat of the Loire.
CABBAGE . Those principally useful to the seaman are the esculent cabbage-tree (_Areca oleracea_), which attains to a great height in the W. Indies. The sheaths of the leaves are very close, and form the green top of the trunk a foot and a half in length; this is cut off, and its white heart eaten. Also, the _Crambe maritima_, sea-kail, or marine cabbage, growing in the west of England.
CABIN . A room or compartment partitioned off in a ship, where the officers and passengers reside. In a man-of-war, the principal cabin, in which the captain or admiral lives, is the upper after-part of the vessel.
CABIN-BOY . A boy whose duty is to attend and serve the officers and passengers in the cabin.
CABIN-LECTURE . _See_ JOBATION.
CABIN-MATE . A companion, when two occupy a cabin furnished with two bed-places.
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