Covered tunnels within a ship through which the tail shafts pass.

A person or firm who transacts all business in a port on behalf of shipowners or charterers. Also called shipping agent; agent.

The normal working pressure for an air motor (6 bar).

A tariff imposed to discourage sale of foreign goods, subsidized to sell at low prices detrimental to local manufacturers.

Electro-mechanical steering device; an instrument designed to control automatically a vessel's steering gear so that she follows a pre-determined track through the water.

The frame of a container constructed to hold one or more thermally insulated tanks for liquids.

Similar to a Barber hauler, a twing adjusts the angle of sheeting.

Running a compressed air system at a higher than needed pressure.

Sailing with the wind from astern, in the same direction toward which the wind is blowing

The difference in depth between high and low tide.

Container freight station or a designated area where empty containers can be picked up or dropped off.

A navigational buoy on which is mounted a bell with clappers hung inside a metal cage, which is rung by the motion of the sea. It serves as a warning of shoal waters.

A stated amount over a fixed rate to one point to make a rate to another point.

A traditional maritime saying to indicate that it is time for a morning drink, it was generally assumed that in northern latitudes the sun would show above the foreyard of a ship by 11.00 which was approximately the time in many ships of the forenoon "sta ...

Originally meant "to stow cargo". Now, means "to search a ship carefully and thoroughly".

A line that controls the angle of the sail in its relation to the wind; attached to the clew of a sail to adjust its trim (make the sail the proper shape to catch the wind).

In wooden ship construction, these were cylindrical pins of oak which were used to secure the planks to her timbers. Pronounced "trennels".

A measurement applied to filters or filter media to indicate the particle size at which suspended solids above that size will be removed.

A device invented by Captain Jacques Cousteau in 1943 to enable a diver to operate underwater independent from an air supply from the surface.

The post that the rudder is attached to. The wheel or tiller is connected to the rudder post.