Conclusion of shipbrokers negotiations to charter a ship - an agreement

Registry of the vessel is foreign to that of the country in which the company that owns the ship is located.

All naval officers with the rank of rear admiral (or its equivalent) and above.

Nautical Flag meanings can be found here.

The ship that carries an admiral's flag.

(1) To lay a line out in coils so that it can run without fouling. (2) Folding a sail in layers on the boom.

A safety device used to prevent or stop unwanted flames.

A bolted rim used for attachment to another object.

Is the lowest temperature to which oil must be heated under standardized test conditions to drive off sufficient inflammable vapour to flash when brought into contact with a flame. Flash points of petroleum based lubricants increase with increasing pressu ...

Used to describe a light that blinks on and off, where the period of light is shorter than the period of darkness separating the flashes.

A rail car without a roof and walls.

A container with no sides and frame members at the front and rear. Container can be loaded from the sides and top.

To trim the sheets in.

Shifting the moving block of a tackle from one place of attachment to another place farther along to give more advantage.

To coil flat down on deck, each fake outside the other, beginning in the middle and all close together.

The short foot rope at the end of a yard at the outer corner of a square sail used when reefing or furling.

Vibration isolation mount. Provides reductions in vibration transmission.

(1) To fill a space (room) with water; (2) A rising tide.

A squadron of small ships.

Floating wreckage from a shipwreck.