Secretly, to remove spirit from a keg or cask by making a small hole and sucking through a straw. also called Suck the Monkey

Person who assists in saving life or property from a vessel wrecked near the coast. Often applied to a small boat that lies in narrow waters ready to wait on a vessel, if required.

A port that is not directly listed in the tide tables but for which information is available as a difference from a nearby standard port.

A bearing 180

American Standards Committee X12 responsible for developing EDI standards for the United States.

Cubic feet per minute. An airflow measurement of volume.

devoid of water.

An inland point provided by an all water carrier's through bill of lading in the U.S. by first discharging the container in an East Coast port.

Wide, a wide boat is a beamy boat

Said of a vessel when the depth of water can be measured by the lead (within the 100 fathom curve).

Vessel moves to a new area for a new season.

To the bow of the boat, forward of the beam.

An aid to taking as astronomical sight with a sextant when the sea horizon is obscured through haze, fog, or darkness.

Heavy latch by which doors, hatches, portholes, etc., are secured; verb - to latch

Is that pressure of either motive fluid or discharge at which an ejector returns to stable operation following a period of unstable operation due to having previously reached the breaking pressure. There are two recovery pressures, one for motive fluid an ...

Amount of unused space in a ship or a hold by virtue of the irregular shape of the cargo.

Is one that does not enter into known chemical combination, either with itself or another element. There are four known gases of this type: helium; neon; argon and krypton. or a gas that does not supply any of the needs of combustion.

Differences between the compass reading and an actual magnetic direction caused by magnetic forces in the vicinity of the compass, which are usually the result of masses of metal, speaker magnets, etc. (2) Vessel departure from specified voyage course.

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The wheel of the block over which the fall of the block is rove.