A draft that matures on a fixed date, regardless of the time of acceptance.

Used for hoisting a topmast or topgallant mast on a square rigged ship.

An elevated guardrail set up at the bow of a vessel. When erected at the stern, it is called a pushpit.

A small storm jib made of very heavy cloth.

A rate published on traffic moving from an interior point to a port for transshipment to a foreign country.

The carrier issuing transportation documents or publishing a tariff.

A laborer who works at loading and discharging cargo.

The most commonly used lubricating oil for compressors.

A metallic pad, usually embedded in concrete, on which the compressor feet are mounted.

Kept in a neat seaman-like manner.

An imaginary line around the center of the earth at 0

The wooden bit in the stem of a whaling boat around which the harpoon line was controlled.

A conduit for disposing of refuse-especially that the ship/s galley.

The man stationed aloft or in the bows for observing and reporting objects seen.

A deck crew member who is subordinate to the Able Bodied Seamen.

A set of four twistable bayonet type shear keys used as part of a spreader to pick up a container or as part of a chassis to secure the containers.

The part of the rope or line, between the end and the standing part, on which a knot is formed.

Horizontally mounted block used to re-direct a line on deck.

The tender of one lot of cargo at one time from one shipper to one consignee on one bill of lading.

The direction of an object from the observer's position.