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Seafarers International Union.

Uniform - U = signal letter and flag. Morse = ( . . - )Flag= Two white and two red square.When hoisted singly from a ship it means : "You are facing immediate danger."

The iron ring at the upper end of an anchor, to which the cable is bent.

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To sag to leeward, is to drift off bodily to leeward.

Mike - M = signal letter and flag. Morse = ( - - )Flag= Diagonal white cross on blue background.When hoisted singly from a ship it means "I have a doctor on board." (Kerchove)

Quality assurance

A vessel of war which has had one deck cut down.

Direction toward which the current is flowing.

To reduce a sail by taking in upon its head, if a square sail, and its foot, if a fore-and-aft sail.

Summer dead weight

The edge of a top.

On/roll off

In general, cordage as it is purchased at the store. When it comes aboard a vessel and is put to use it becomes line.

(See BALLAST.)

November - N = signal letter and flag. Morse = ( - . )Flag= Four horizontal rows of alterned blue and white squares.

Papa - P = signal letter and flag. Morse = ( . - - . )Flag= White square on a blue background.Called "Blue Peter" as when hoisted singly from a ship it means "The ship is going to sail.

Rescue coordination centre

A rope bent to the cable just outside the hawse-hole, and brought in on the weather quarter, for slipping.