The windward side (from where the wind is blowing).

A sailing ship with three to five masts, all of them square-rigged except the after mast, which is fore-and-aft rigged.

A sailor's trunk; the intake between the ship's side and a sea valve.

(1) To throw, as to heave a line ashore. (2) An upward pull on a line; to lift (3) The rise and fall of a vessel in a seaway.

Slang for getting married. A splice joins two lines together permanently.

An abbreviation of forecastle.

A navigational aid with a light that flashes about once per second.

The country in which the vessel is registered.

To repair, clean or paint the hull.

Is used in psychrometry and is the temperature recorded by a thermometer whose bulb has been covered with a wetted wick and whirled on a sling psychrometer. Taken with the dry bulb, it permits determination of relative humidity of the atmosphere.

Incapable of being mixed without separation phases. Water and petroleum oil are immiscible under most conditions, although they can be made miscible with the addition of an emulsifier.

A container frame fitted to accommodate two or more separate tanks for liquids.

Dining room facilities and kitchen for crew separate from the passenger dining room and kitchen.

A ton on which the shipment is freighted. If cargo is rated as weight or measure (W/M), whichever produces the highest revenue will be considered the revenue ton. Weights are based on metric tons and measures are based on cubic meters. RT=1 MT or 1 CBM.

To prevent contact with an object while bringing the ship alongside.2. To push off when making a landing.

A solid wharf or structure built of stone along the edge of a harbor used for loading and offloading of cargo, and embarkation and disembarkation of passengers.

A weight attached to a line used to determine depth by lowering it into the water.

To bagpipe the mizzen, is to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the weather mizzen rigging.

Said of a lighthouse not tended.

Transaction or interchange that occurs at the time a container leaves a rail or water terminal.