Abbreviation for:- Sight draft.- Sea damage.

Society of Automotive Engineers.

A place for the reception, delivery, consolidation, distribution, and storage of goods/cargo.

Institute Warrant Limits

The distance traveled after correction for current, leeway and other errors that may not have been included in the original distance measurement.

A severe naval punishment for serious offenses in which the victim was hauled from one yardarm to the other under the keel of the ship. The victim rarely survived; he would either be cut to ribbons by the shellfish on the ship's bottom or drown.

Eastern Weighing and Inspection Bureau.

That which is loaded into a ship. The act of loading.

Resistance to air flow; usually stated in inches H2O or PSI.

Abbreviation for "Doing Business As." A legal term for conducting business under a registered name.

Quality System Manual.QSC

Abbreviation for "Dangerous and Hazardous" cargo.

Secondary forestay supporting the leading edge of the mast and used to flatten the mainsail in building winds.

The angle between the zenith and a heavenly body.

A gentle breeze; the slightest movement of air.

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Loaded aboard a vessel.

To back an anchor, is to carry out a smaller one ahead of the one by which the vessel rides, to take off some of the strain. To back a sail, is throw it aback. To back and fill, is alternately to back and fill the sails.

Used to indicated times measured in Coordinated Universal Time, a successor to Greenwich Mean Time. A time standard that is not affected by time zones or seasons.

Receipt made by Chief Officer, stating the quantity and condition of goods loaded.