Possible Clues:

• It was his majesty's place to deal with finance
• What might hold, or float on, water?
• Liquid container
• A ship - or a pot
• A ship, a receptacle
• The bloody sort are not all in vain, by the sound of it
• A ship, a cup
• A ship or kitchen utensil
• See fish round ship or boat
• At last, not so much back of a ship