To communicate with a vessel in sight.

An oil-skin hat with broad rear brim.

Used to confine the bowsprit down to the stem or cutwater.

A smaller version of the flag of the country being visited. It is flown from the starboard spreader.

The cabin roof, raised above the deck to provide headroom in the cabin. Also trunk.

The time that the container was discharged (grounded) from the train.

A sheet or halyard coiled so that it will run out quickly without becoming tangled.

The crew's term for the chief engineer.

Stowage of general or special cargoes in a container for transport in the various modes.

Foreign matter carried in the air, gas or fluid to be filtered out. Includes air borne dirt, metallic particles produced by wear of moving parts of the air compressor, rust from metal pipelines.

Machines in which air or gas is compressed in each cylinder or casing from initial intake pressure to final discharge pressure.

When a line is pulled as tight as is can go, as when two blocks are pulled together so that no further movement is possible (also known as "Two blocked").

A carrier which has a direct physical connection with, or forms a link between two or more carriers.

A machine having two or more impellers operating in series on a single shaft and in single casing.

Percentage of cargo or passengers carried e.g. 4000 tons carried on a vessel of 10000 capacity has a load factor of 40%

To clap on is to temporarily add something to an existing part.

Cubic space (measurement tons occupied by one tonne (2240 lbs or 1000 kgs of cargo))

The area leading down from the deck to the cabin, usually with steps (ladder)

A figure representing the average low tide of a region.

Machines having only one impeller.