A rope used for securing any movable object in place

Japanese tapered pipe thread (Female).

An order meaning sufficient (enough).

A salt or ester of carbonic acid.

A line used for suspending articles.

Having a shape that that is not adversely affected by wind flowing past it.

Is one which 1) handles a small constant flow of liquid with the gas; 2) utilizes evaporative (injection) cooling; or 3) circulates a liquid for sealing and/or cooling. The last may or may not be evaporative cooling.

International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness,Response and Co-operation, IMO

A cargo on which the transportation charge is assessed on the basis of weight.

A projecting aperture at the end of a tube, pipe etc. serving as an outlet for compressed air. Reduces the demand on the compressor by generating the highest thrust and volume for the lowest possible air consumption.

Bulk Carrier or Motorcar Carrier

Slang name for the Q Flag. Also an old term for yellow fever.

Also known as a preferred channel buoy. A red and green horizontally striped buoy used in the United States to mark the separation of a channel into two channels. The preferred channel is indicated by the color of the uppermost stripe. Red on top indicate ...

The ability of a boat to keep from being moved sideways by the wind. Keels, daggerboards, centerboards, and leeboards are all used to improve a boat's lateral resistance.

Having no sails up. In heavy weather the windage of the mast and other spars can still be enough to move the boat.

Search of a vessel, by Customs authorities, for unreported goods.

Overhanging part of a vessel's stern. The area of the upper deck of a ship that is nearest the stern.

A method of docking with a boat's stern to the dock.

For gauging purposes a transverse section including all longitudinal members such as plating, longitudinals and girders at the deck, side, bottom, inner bottom and longitudinal buklheads.

A sprocket wheel on the windlass for taking links of the chain cable.