From 1778 to 1782, the British navy never went close enough to the chain to test it.

It was the British navy that they were concerned with; for good reason.

This time we are in need of sailors for the British navy.

As you know, most of the British navy that was at sea did not return to port.

He made his money selling coal to the British navy.

There was nothing imaginably like these in the British navy.

Aigle was added to the British navy under the same name.

But her unhappy crew was pressed into the British navy.

At least, in the British navy: he was certain no one on board his ancestor's ship ever would have done a thing like that.

The British navy kept records of the magnetic and true north for three hundred years, which means we've got a pretty good database.