Privilege to use the rate producing the lowest charge.

Practice of loading iron ore cargoes into every alternate hold, leaving the remaining holds empty.

Holding oars at right angles to fore and aft line of boat with blades horizontal and parallel to surface of water.

The interval between full moon and change of moon and the highest high tide.

Term for a seaman's short leave from his ship, permitting him to go ashore for the day or night.

Ship supplies.

An old name for high waves when they break with a white crest.

Any fixed object that a navigator may use to find his position, such as permanent land or sea markers, buoys, radiobeacons, and lighthouses, and to indicate safe and unsafe waters.

A steam boiler on a ship deck used to supply steam to deck machinery when the main boilers are shut down.

Quantity of gas actually compressed and delivered to the discharge system at rated speed of the machine and under rated pressure conditions.

A colorless, odorless, tasteless gas. A mixture of individual gases. The gaseous mixture surrounding the earth. Standard density of dry air free of carbon dioxide (0

Nautical name for an argumentative person.

A triangular topsail set above the mainsail in a gaff-rigged vessel.

A representative of a government commission or agency vested with power to administer oaths, examine witnesses, take testimony, and conduct hearings of cases submitted to, or initiated by, that agency. Also called Hearing Examiner.

Underwriters Lab.

A line rove through a single block secured aloft.

Above the upper deck (above).

An anchor engine used for heaving in the chain cable and anchor.

A cargo consolidator in ocean trades who will buy space from a carrier and subsell it to smaller shippers. The NVOCC issues bills of lading, publishes tariffs and otherwise conducts itself as an ocean common carrier, except that it will not provide the ac ...

Describes the pressure drop through a component and is the difference in pressure between two points.