Steel section running along the length of each bottom edge of a shipping container giving its structural strength.

To bleed is the operation of draining any water out of a buoy which may have seeped inside after long use at sea.

Along or around a coast.

A large balloon shaped lightweight sail used when running or reaching. Spinnakers are made of cloth very similar to that used for parachutes, which is why you may also hear them called chutes, or kites.

The internal duct and filter medium support

A bank that, in its own country, handles the business of a foreign bank.

The ship's funnel or smokestack.

To ease away slowly, as in a line, sheet, or falls of a tackle.

To put out a mooring, hawser or line from a ship to a point of attachment outside her.

The spiral grooves between the strands of rope after it has been laid up.

The line of longitude 180 degrees opposite Greenwich, England, located in the Pacific that marks the date change

Large ships dating back to the 17th century typically with three masts carrying rectangular sails mounted on horizontal spars called yards. A sailing-ship rig with rectangular sails set approximately at right angles to the keel line from horizontal yards.

The anti-corrosive paint used on and above the waterline.

A device for mounting cylinders.

Consists of a vessel which is a combination of oil sump and oil separator, an oil cooler and an oil filter.

A wire or rope contrivance placed around cargo and used to load or discharge it to/from a vessel.

Finely-divided water swept from crest of waves by strong winds.

A traditional term in the British Navy for serving out an additional tot of rum or grog to a ship's crew. In sailing ship days the main brace was spliced (in terms of drink) in very bad weather or after a period of severe exertion by the crew.

A large body of fish.

Abbreviation for "Bales."