Elevated structure from which coal and other cargoes can be loaded into a vessel. Name is also given to a landing-place, or loading-place.

States that the volume of a gas, at constant pressure, varies directly with the absolute temperature.

A compressor that is designed to operate at lower pressures. Usually a blower is an air compressor that operates below 2 barg, although this figure depends upon the respective manufacturer.

A document, certified by a consular official, is required by some countries to describe a shipment. Used by Customs of the foreign country, to verify the value, quantity and nature of the cargo.

Compressors in which successive volumes of air or gas are confined within a closed space, and compressed. They may be either reciprocating or rotating. (Trap air and then squeeze it to the desired pressure).

A warehouse authorized by Customs authorities for storage of goods on which payment of duties is deferred until the goods are removed.

the weight of a specified artificial contaminant that must be added to the influent to produce a given differential pressure across a filter at specified conditions. Used as an indication of relative service life.

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

An amount added or deducted from base rate to make a rate to or from some other point or via another route.

On steam vessels has responsibility for the boilers, on diesels, the evaporators and the auxiliary equipment.

(1) A spar that extends from the bow of the boat. (2) A spar stretching diagonally across a four-sided fore-and-aft sail to support the peak.

A large and powerful sheet winch

A term for a circular plank edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel.

is the energy a substance possesses because of its elevation above the earth (or above some other chosen datum plane). .

A program whereby the U.S. government attempted to offset the higher shipbuilding cost in the U.S. by paying up to 50% of the difference between cost of U.S. and nonU.S. construction. The difference went to the U.S. shipyard. It is unfunded since 1982.

A small toggle used on a flag.

A measure of air compressor efficiency, usually in the form of bhp/100 acfm or acfm/bhp

Is the volume of a given weight of gas, usually expressed as cu ft/lb as SPT conditions.

The action of a whale when it comes to the surface and expels the seawater it has taken in while feeding. The traditional hail of the lookout in a whaling ship when sighting this spouting water is "There she blows".

Decorative ropework with an even number of strands to form a herring-bone pattern.