A piece of equipment designed to lift containers by their corner castings.

The water level used to record data on a chart. Usually the average low tide water level. It is the level below which depths on a chart are measured, and above which keights of a tide are expressed.

All matter consists of molecules which are in constant motion, but which are held together by molecular forces. In a solid the molecules are closely packed and arranged in such a pattern that the influence of the molecular forces is very strong. This give ...

Without sufficient crew.

Small birds that foretell bad weather and bad luck.

A stationary passage surrounding an impeller, in which velocity pressure imparted to the flow medium by the impeller is converted into static pressure.

A sudden squall of wind accompanied by lightning.

The headway a vessel makes when luffed in the wind; the distance a sailing vessel will shoot up to windward when brought head to head in the act of tacking.

When U.S. Customs orders shipments without entries to be kept in their custody in a bonded warehouse.

The tendency of a boat to move sideways in the water instead of along its heading due to the motion of currents or currents.

To cast off all but one remaining line.

Is the temperature at which moisture begins to condense in a compressed air system.

Canvas or wood seat attached a halyard to raise and lower someone to work on the mast

A clumsy and unskilled man.

White-lead and tallow used on standing rigging.

To come up more into the wind

Running directly before wind and sea.

The container of fresh water for drinking purpose used by the crew; formerly it consisted of a cask.

The point of equilibrium of the total weight of a containership, truck, train or a piece of cargo.

Pounds per square inch, gauge. Pressure indicated by a pressure gauge.