A transportation arrangement in which truck trailers with their loads are moved by train to a destination. Also known as Rail Pigs.

All naval officers with the rank of rear admiral (or its equivalent) and above.

To bind together in order to increase tension or to prevent from blowing loose.

Also rubbing strake or rub strake. An applied or thickened member at the rail, running the length of the boat; serves to protect the hull when alongside a pier or another boat.

A line used to control the tension along a sail's luff in order to maintain proper sail shape.

Division of the circumference of the magnetic compass card into thirty-two points, each of 11

The compartment at the bow of the vessel

Of, relating to, or using air. Moved by air pressure. Filled with compressed air.

Shipper's communication(s) to its agent and/or directly to the international water-carrier. Instructions may be varied, e.g., specific details/clauses to be printed on the B/L, directions for cargo pickup and delivery.

In spray painting applications, Spray equipment which delivers material at a low pressure of no more than 10 PSI (at the air cap), however, with greater volume of air.

Shell or body of a ship.

Pounds per square inch, absolute.

A machine which aspirates gas which has already been compressed and delivers the same at higher pressure.

Swing of the boom from one side of the ship to the other when the tack is changed.

The forward mast of a boat with more that one mast

The study of the earth's waters.

A harbor restriction placed on a ship which has an infectious disease on board, or which has arrived from a country where such a disease is prevalent. The crew may not go ashore until the ship is granted pratique.

Water service between two coasts; in the U.S., this usually refers to water service between the Atlantic and Pacific or Gulf Coasts.

Areas of corrosion.