A U-shaped fitting closed with a pin across the open ends, the pin sometimes being threaded at one end and sometimes held in place with a cotter pin, and used to secure sails to lines or fittings, lines to fittings, fittings to fittings, anchors to chain, ...

Heavy, linked chain secured to an anchor for mooring or anchoring.

Cargo loaded into a container by the shipper under shipper's supervision. When the cargo is exported, it is unloaded at the foreign pier destination.

On square-rigged ships, an additional sail set in good weather outside the square sails when the wind was abaft the beam.

To haul on a rope, to haul up tight, to hoist the last possible inch or so.

see Bream

On older sailing ships, a heavy piece of curved timber projecting from the bow for the purpose of holding anchors in position for letting go or for securing them after weighing.

A multihulled boat with three hulls.

An attachment point for another object.

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First attempt at best offer that can be matched

Break; e.g., the line parted under strain

A vessel's position determined by observation and navigational data.

A publication predicting the time and height of high tide and low tide.

Shipment of goods to a foreign country.

The athwartship portion of a hull at the stern. The flat, vertical aft end of a ship.

Also bosun, bos'n, bo's'n, and bo'sun, all of which are pronounced bosun. The highest unlicensed rating in the deck department who has immediate charge of all deck hands, oversees deck crew, maintenance and upkeep of the ship except for the engine room an ...

Articles handled only under certain conditions.

An anchor that is designed to bury itself into the ground by use of its plow shape. Also called a plow anchor.

All rigging, cranes, etc., utilized on a ship to load or unload cargo.