Fabricated as a single structure.

A statement listing the particulars of all shipments loaded for a specified voyage.

A company (or person) making an unwanted, hostile bid for another.

To fill in the seams with cotton or oakum.

A reversing thermometer which is encased in a strong glass outer shell that protects it against hydrostatic pressure. Compare to unprotected thermometer.

Similar to a whip, an instrument of punishment where seamen were flogged on their bare backs.

A multihull with two hulls separated by a deck or crossbeams from which a trampoline is suspended; abbreviated "cat."

To decorate a ship with flags in celebration of certain occasions.

Near or toward the shore

Percentage of time a compressor unit can operate at full load over a thirty minute period.

The practically steady winds blowing toward the equator, N.E. in the northern and SE. in the southern hemisphere.

Equipped to extract petroleum, e.g. oil production ship.

Dividends, paid by UK companies to other companies (for example, investment trusts), with a tax.

(GIB)A bond in which a single premium secures a guaranteed regular income until maturity at which time.

The line-of-sight distance between two objects.

Going toward the direction of the wind, by alternate tacks.

A component of a heat pump that reverses the refrigerant's direction of flow, allowing the heat pump to switch from cooling to heating or heating to cooling.

The successor to the European Currency Unit (ECU) as the European currency. The euro was introduced.

The spontaneous chipping, fragmentation, or separation of a surtace or surface coating.

The part of a block which is opposite the swallow, which is where the line enters.