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Quebec - Q = signal letter and flag. Morse = ( - - . - )Flag= Yellow.When hoisted singly from a ship it means "Quarantine flag"(Kerchove)Hoisted on arrival, it means that nobody can go ashore or board until the quarantine officer has cleared the ship. ...

Oscar - O = signal letter and flag. Morse = ( - - - )Flag= Halved diagonally in red and yellow.When hoisted singly from a ship it means "Man overboard."

Sundays and Holidays Excluded. Method of calculating the Lay days. These days are not counted.

Freight ship or ferry with facilities for vehicles to drive on and off (roll-on roll-off); a system of loading and discharging a ship whereby the cargo is driven on and off on ramps. Equipped with large openings at bow and stern and sometimes also in the ...

Sea coming on a boat's quarter.

Search And Rescue

To set up rigging, is to tauten it by tackles. The seizings are then put on afresh.

Society of International Gas Tankers and Terminal Operators ltd.

Seafarers International Union.

Uniform - U = signal letter and flag. Morse = ( . . - )Flag= Two white and two red square.When hoisted singly from a ship it means : "You are facing immediate danger."

The iron ring at the upper end of an anchor, to which the cable is bent.

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To sag to leeward, is to drift off bodily to leeward.

Mike - M = signal letter and flag. Morse = ( - - )Flag= Diagonal white cross on blue background.When hoisted singly from a ship it means "I have a doctor on board." (Kerchove)

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A vessel of war which has had one deck cut down.

Direction toward which the current is flowing.

To reduce a sail by taking in upon its head, if a square sail, and its foot, if a fore-and-aft sail.