A rail fastened along the inside of the bulwarks of a vessel and pierced to hold belaying pins

A standard numerical code used by the U.S. Government to classify products and services.

A tall buoy used as a navigational aid.

A schooner with a square rigged sail on the forward mast.

A small boat designed to be rowed by use of its oars. Some dinghies are rowboats.

An announced warning of an approach of a storm.

Very small wooden pail having one stave prolonged to form a handle. Used as a bailer in a boat.

SOnar Navigation and Ranging - A device which emits pulses of high frequency sound which are reflected by any solid object they encounter. The time from the emission of the pulse and the arrival of its returning echo is measured, giving a range to the obj ...

A term applied to the gas found on the high pressure side of the refrigeration system.

The officer in charge of the watch.

see Devil

A compartment on or near the bridge of a ship that contains the steering wheel and other controls, compass, charts, navigating equipment and means of communicating with the engine room and other parts of the ship. Also known as wheelhouse

The short aftermost raised deck of a vessel.

Sufficient movement through the water to allow the boat to be controlled and steered by the rudder.

Is the saturation pressure at the critical temperature. It is the highest vapor pressure that the liquid can exert.

A ported enclosure which directs the flow of a gas through the filter element.

Procedure where carrier tests the temperature of the internal flesh of refrigerated commodities to assure that the temperature at time of shipment conforms to prescribed temperature ranges.

To know and to be able to recite the points of a compass from north to south to north again, both clockwise and counter-clockwise.

To bring a sailing vessel to a stop with her sails still set. This can be accomplished on a square rigged ship by bracing the yards aback on her foremast; on fore-and-aft rigged boats it is done by bringing her head into the wind so that the sails are no ...

(1) The portion of an anchor that digs securely into the bottom, holding the boat in place. (2) The two triangular parts which make up a whale's tail.