The removal of heat from a gas after compression is completed.

The gingerbread woodwork on the stern of old sailing ships.

ACRONYM - A unit of electrical current or rate of flow of electrons through a conductor. One volt across one ohm of resistance causes a current flow of one ampere. One ampere is equal to 6.25 x 1018 electrons per second passing a set point in a circuit. A ...

Used for lashing down sails, awnings, etc., a series of round turns where the end is passed over the standing part and under the bight and pulled taut on each turn.

The measurement around the body of a ship. The half girth is taken from the center line of the keel to the upper deck beam end.

To combine or charge with gas.

Line 12 inches or 300 mm long, painted amidships on both sides and parallel to the load lines.

The working portion of a cruise between ports. A long cruise may have many legs. The distance sailed on one tack. The course from one race mark to another.

A device for drying compressed air by means of condensation obtained by over-compression or cooling, absorption, adsorption or a combination of the above methods.

In square-rigged vessels, short lines at the lower end of the futtock shrouds used to bring in the shrouds tighter to give room to brace the yards at a sharper angle when sailing close hauled.

The temperature of a body referred to the absolute zero, at which point the volume of an ideal gas theoretically becomes zero. (Fahrenheit scale is minus 459.67

Is the force in newton required to move a fluid layer of one square meter area and a thickness of one meter with a velocity of one meter per second.

An instrument used to keep a record of atmospheric pressure, such as on a paper drum.

A metal plate fitting on the deck that can be opened to take on fuel or water

One carrier assumes the charges of another without any increase in charges to the shipper.

(1) Broken water at bow of a vessel making way. (2) Disturbed water made by a propeller or paddle wheel. (3) The rush or sweeping of waves on a bank, shore, or vessel.

A shifting of the wind direction, opposite of backing. Clockwise in the northern hemisphere, counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

Angled frames in the extreme forward or aft ends of a ship which form the sharp ends of the vessel's hull.

Fitted with cabins and catering facilities for offshore crews. Semisubmersible accommodation units are ofte called "Flotels".

Can occur any time warm, moist air blows over a surface cool enough to drop it's temperature below the dew point.