Dangerously steep and breaking seas due to opposing currents and wind in a shallow area.

Used for sending messages to outside companies. Messages are transmitted via Western Union, ITT and RCA. Being replaced by fax and internet.

Gossip, usually about other people or events. The term scuttlebutt evolved from the name of a keg containing water and alcohol that sailors used to gather about before meals.

To wrap a small line around another.

Is the energy a substance possesses by virtue of its motion or velocity. Used primarily in calculations for dynamic and ejector type compressors

Method of producing a chart in which the parallels of latitude and the meridians of longitude intersect each other at right angles.

The carbon left after evaporating an oil under controlled conditions.

The ratio and percent of the actual delivered capacity (measured at inlet temperature, pressure and gas composition) to the piston displacement.

A container fitted with a means of forced air ventilation.

A wind coming from the east.

A double block where the two sheaves lie in a plane one below the other, rather than alongside each other.

A deck exposed to the wind and sea.

A publication setting forth the charges, rates and rules of transportation companies.

The distance a boat can move around its anchor. Swinging room is important because if other boats or objects are within a boat's swinging circle they may collide.

A short piece of rope secured in the bow of a small boat used for making her fast.

The top point of the line about which the earth rotates.

A sailboat with two masts. Generally, the shorter mizzen mast is aft of the main mast, but forward of the rudder post, while a similar vessel, the yawl, has the mizzen mast aft of the rudder post. The mizzen mast of a ketch is larger than that of a yawl.

After or trailing edge of a sail; the after edge of a fore-and-aft sail and the outer edges of a square sail.

Allows foreign merchandise arriving at one port to be transported in bond to another port, where a superseding entry is filed.

A vessel designed for the transport of people or goods from one place to another on a regular schedule.