A point beyond the midpoint of a ships length, towards the rear or stern.

Consumption

An instrument used to measure changes in the level of the water in an evaporation pan. The gauge is normally placed in a Stillwell and adjusted so that the point of the hook just breaks the water surface. The change in water level is read on the attached ...

Technical BulletinsThis provides a summary of most of the units of measurement to be found in use around the world today (and a few of historical interest), together with the appropriate conversion factors needed to change them into a 'standard' unit of t ...

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A voyage or voyage leg made without any paying cargo in a vessel's tanks. To maintain proper stability, trim, or draft, sea water is usually carried during such movements.

Bureau Veritas (classification society)

Various kinds of commodities usually packed in sacks or in bags, such as sugar, cement, milk powder, onion, grain, flour, etc.

A vessel is wall-sided when her sides run up perpendicularly from the bends. In opposition to tumbling home or flaring out.

Tropical Fresh load line

Salt Water. In reference to the water supporting the ship, meaning Sea Water. Usually the density of Salt Water is 1.025, but can vary from 1.023 up to 1.030 or even 1.033 in place like the Bitter Lakes in the Suez Canal.

1.Life saving appliances2.Lloyd's standard form of salvage agreement.3.Liner Shipping Agreements.4.Installations character for Safety Equipment.

Cubic capacity of a vessels holds to carry packaged dry cargo such as bales/pallets

Tanker < 80,000 dwt (average freight rate assessment)

The frame upon which a vessel is built.

A space where alarm bells are installed on the bridge of a ship to trace or rectify any machinery faults. The computerized devices will report any fault immediately it appears and the engineers on board can attend to the necessary ramifications.

The bearing of an object 90 degrees from ahead (in a line with the middle of the ship).

A ship designed for the carriage of oil in bulk, her cargo space consisting of several or many tanks. Tankers load their cargo by gravity from the shore or by shore pumps and discharge using their own pumps.

Same as aneroid barometer. Holostelic means wholly made of solids, while aneroid means devoid of liquid.

Said of the bearing of an object which bears between the beam and the stern (further back than the ship's middle).