Radiation with wavelengths less than 4 microns.

A document confirming that recently-purchased insurance is in force. Used if a claim should be.

An aneroid barometer with a scale graduated in altitude instead of pressure units.

Path through open water used for commercial vessel passage and so noted on chart

A consolidation service, putting small shipments into containers for shipment.

Voyage charter party published by Chamber of Shipping of U.K.

A payment system in which the payer authorises the payee to take funds from his bank.

A compartment on or near the bridge of a ship that contains the steering wheel and other controls, compass, charts, navigating equipment and means of communicating with the engine room and other parts of the ship. Also known as wheelhouse

The deck chest in which the bos'n keeps his deck gear.

Brass work, polished (also varnished wood work in yachts).

A layer of dust built up on an air filter.

A type of furnace or reactor in which fuel particles are combusted while suspended in a stream of hot gas.

This rather grand term refers to various things that companies can do which affect the number of.

A mortgage which guarantees the interest rate charged will remain a set number of percentage points.

A stern sprit or spar extending from the stern.

A large reinforced eye in the leech and clew of a sail that allows a line to fasten to it; e.g., the reef cringle and clew cringle.

Said of a line that leads from its point of attachment towards the bow of the ship.

Lie at anchor

An indemnity issued to the carrier by a bank; protects the carrier against any possible losses or damages arising from release of the merchandise to the receiving party. This instrument is usually issued when the bill of lading is lost or is not available ...

A bullying and tyrannical officer; he would drive his crew by brutality and the power of his fists.