Any person or entity who, in a contract of carriage, undertakes to perform or to procure the performance of carriage by rail, road, sea, air, inland waterway or by a combination of such modes.

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

Nickname for a ship's cooper.

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

Stemming the tide or sea means to head the vessel's bow directly into the current or waves. Overcome adverse circumstances.

a circular donut-shaped buoy designed to support a person in the water. It is attached to the vessel with a (floating) line so that the person can be hauled back to the boat.

The part of the rotating element of a dynamic compressor that imparts energy to the flowing medium by means of centrifugal force. It consists of a number of blades mounted so as to rotate with the shaft.

The direction to which a compass points. Magnetic north differs from true north because the magnetic fields of the planet are not exactly in line with the north and south poles. Observed differences between magnetic and true north is known as magnetic var ...

Board, bearing instructions, that comes to a wrecked ship with a life-saving rocket line.

A gauge that measures air flow as a percentage of capacity, used in rotary screw compressors as an estimator during modulation controls.

Most ocean freight is billed on the basis of weight or measurement tons (W/M). Weight tons can be expressed in short tons of 2000 pounds, long tons of 2240 pounds or metric tons of 1000 kilos (2204.62 pounds). Measurement tons are usually expressed as car ...

(1) In good condition. (2) To adjust to proper shape or size.

Valve of a pump box; to prime a pump.

The action of letting go the sheets of a sailing vessel, thus spilling the wind and reducing the forward motion of the boat.

A lighted or unlighted fixed (non-floating) aid to navigation that serves as a signal or indication for guidance or warning. (Lights and daybeacons both constitute "beacons.")

A lubricating oil made with synthetic base stocks.

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.

The highest continuous deck which runs the full length of the ship without a fall or interruption.

Kilograms per square centimeter absolute.

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