Both Ends (Load & Discharge Ports)

The strongest part of a vessel's side, to which the beams, knees, and foot-hooks are bolted. The part between the water's edge and the bulwarks.

(SEE NEAPED)

A situation where a vessel has gone aground at the top of the spring tides and has to wait for up to a fortnight (during which the neap tides occur) for the next tide high enough to float her off. Vessels beneaped at around the time of the equinoxes when ...

Sailor's term for being about to get married, a splice being used to join two ropes together.

Pieces of ice, about the size of a small house, that have broken off a glacier.

A sail plan in which the main and/or mizzen, or the foresail of a schooner, is of triangular shape, very long in the luff and set from a tall mast. This is almost now universal in all sailing yachts.

In physics, the concept that as the speed of a moving fluid (liquid or gas) increases, the pressure within that fluid decreases. Originally formulated in 1738 by the Swiss mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli, it states that the total energy in a ...

The place where a vessel lies. The place in which a man sleeps.

A vessel's place at anchor or at a dock. Seaman's assignment.

Term used in a voyage charter party, e.g. vessel shall proceed to Berth 2 at Falmouth.

Shipped under rate that includes cost from end of ship's tackle at load port to end of ship's tackle at discharge port.

Said of a vessel when she is entirely surrounded by ice.

Term used in the days of sail to indicate the starboard of the two anchors carried at the bow of a ship. The anchor on the port side was known as the small bower (although they were the same size).

The space between decks. The name of the deck or decks between the ceiling and main deck.

see Devil

On or near the line of immersion of a ship's hull.

Old name for bunting from which signal and other flags were made.

Used with reference to charges assessed for cargo movement past a line-haul terminating point.

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