To let the sheet out slowly while maintaining control.

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Generally speaking the word amidships means in the middle portion of a vessel.

The maximum stress that a material is capable of sustaining without any permanent strain (deformation) remaining upon complete release of the stress.

The least noble potential where pitting or crevice corrosion, or both, will initiate and propagate.

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A system of estimating and reporting wind speed, originally based on the effect of various wind speeds on the amount of canvas that a full-rigged nineteenth century frigate could carry.

Vessel Traffic Information System

A legal document which records the obligation of one individual to pay a specified sum to another.

An inert gas. An element found in the atmosphere to the extent of only 0.000114 percent by volume. Its molecular weight is 83.7.

The use of direct, diffuse, or reflected sunlight to provide supplemental lighting for building interiors.

Tender.

Emergency.

Panamax ships are all ships that comply with the size and draft limitations of the existing (old) locks; namely, length 294.13m by 32.31m in breadth by 12.04 fresh water draft.

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Ship equipped with her own cranes.

The usually unfinished space above a ceiling and below a roof.

The size of a flaw (defect) in a structure that will cause failure at a particular stress level.

Provisional value for plane-strain fracture toughness.