A cargo-carrying ship which is operated between scheduled,advertised ports of loading and discharge on a regular basis.

An opening into a tank or compartment designed to admit a man.

A notation on a bill of lading that cargo has been loaded on board a vessel. Used to satisfy the requirements of a letter of credit, in the absence of an express requirement to the contrary.

Said of a vessel when she is passing or overtaking another vessel.

A partial deck at the stern above the main deck, derived from the Latin "puppio" for the sacred deck where the "pupi" or doll images of the deities were kept.

To reduce the area of a sail by making fast the reef points (used in rough weather).

To climb up. A formation of rust over iron or steel plating.

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Mexico (flag).

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The running of a ship on shore on a beach.

The sufficiency of a vessel in materials construction, equipment, crew and outfit for the trade in which it is employed. Any sort of disrepair to the vessel by which the cargo may suffer - overloading, untrained officers, etc., may constitute a vessel uns ...

A numbering system using a base number of 16 and including the ten decimal digits (0 to 9) along with six alpha digits (A to F). Thus. a digit is available to represent each of the possible values of a 4-bit binary digit.

Of or pertaining to rain.

A form of psychrometer with wet-bulb and dry-bulb thermometers mounted on opposite sides of a specialty designed graph of the psychrometric tables. It is so arranged that the intersections of two curves determined by the wet-bulb and dry-bulb readings -yi ...

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A backward direction in the line of a vessel's fore and aft line; behind. If a vessel moves backwards it is said to move astern; opposite to ahead.

Double bottoms for carrying water ballast and capable of being flooded or pumped out at will.

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