The short deckhouse or main hatchway which is raised above the level of the cabin top or coachroof.

Sailor's term for soot or ashes which sometimes fell into food while it was being cooked.

A listing of a particular boat's steering deviation on each point of the compass

To retire from a life at sea and settle ashore.

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.

A wooden lattice-work covering a hatch or the bottom boards of a boat; similarly designed gratings of metal are frequently found on shipboard.

Tanks used for the storage of air discharged from compressors. They serve also to damp discharge line pulsations.

Short shrouds which give support to the top of a lower mast.

Break horse power

The rank held by a naval seaman.

In trouble.

is the design (built-in) compression ratio for a rotary unit having this feature

Toward the shore

The whole crew.

A rotating fitting used to keep a line from tangling.

When a vessel fills with water and sinks.

Ratio of the pressure of a gas to its critical pressure, in like units.

A cylinder used to carry rotating machine parts, such as pulleys and gears, to transmit power or motion; such as a propeller shaft.

The dimensionless number obtained when the difference between maximum and minimum instantaneous shaft speeds during one period is divided by the arithmetic mean of these two.