Columnar support for the steering wheel in the cockpit.

Moving through the water.

The settings on a pressure switch used to either load or unload the air compressor on a constant speed application, or start or stop the compressor on a start/stop application. The cut out pressure is also known as the maximum pressure, or the point at wh ...

Under letters of credit, one or more shipments are allowed by the phrase "partial shipments permitted."

To let go altogether.

A ship designed to carry all types of general cargo, or "dry cargo."

Name given to the metal point or ram fixed on the bows of old war galleys and used to pierce the hulls, and thus sink or disable enemy ships.

Remove a boat from the water.

Tool used for transferring course and bearing to and from the compass rose on a chart

A tiller that is designed to be used in the event that wheel steering fails.

On older sailing ships, an additional lateen shaped mizzen sail carried on the fourth mast, known as a bonaventure mizzen.

To make fast. To bend a sail, is to make it fast to the yard. To bend a cable, is to make it fast to the anchor. A bend, is a knot by which one rope is made fast to another.

To move cargo from one place to another.

Provision in a salvage agreement that money is not payable unless the property is salved in accordance with that accordance.

The area between opposing shipping lanes, restricted to most navigation except for crossing with caution

1,000 grams or 2.2046 pounds.

Vertical distance from the keel to the uppermost deck, taken inside the ship/s plating.

All rigging, cranes, etc., utilized on a ship to load or unload cargo.

A slang term for an open-top trailer or container with a tarpaulin cover.

Deeper forward (front end deepest in water).