c1688 Pepys Mem. R.N. in Moorhouse (1909) 253 For ascertaining the duty of a sea-lieutenant, and for examining persons pretending to that office.
1723 II. 341 The same happened to another Sea-Lieutenant Michucow.
1803 in D. Knox (U.S. Office Naval Records) (1941) III. 32 A sea lieutenant is always to be on the quarter-deck.