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

Range. Range of ports in which the cargo could be loaded: Le Havre/Hamburg includes those ports and all those in between: Dunkirk, Antwerp, Rotterdam...

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

Safety Management Certificate. (ISM Code) Certificates stating that the ship has an SMS

1.Safehull Bridge System.2.Segregated Ballast Tank. (MARPOL)Tank used exclusively for water ballast but which can be pumped through cargo pumps under certain conditions

To haul in on a rope, especially a weather-brace.

A small, triangular iron instrument, with a handle fitted to its centre, and used for scraping decks and masts.