On steam vessels has responsibility for the boilers, on diesels, the evaporators and the auxiliary equipment.

Finely-divided water swept from crest of waves by strong winds.

Any time Day or Night Sundays & Holidays Included.

Along or around a coast.

A wire or rope contrivance placed around cargo and used to load or discharge it to/from a vessel.

Heavy-weather practice of pouring oil on the sea so as to form a film on the surface, thus preventing the seas from breaking. To smooth out some difficulty.

An investor who plots information about share prices and trading volumes on a chart, looking for.

This is an INCO term and explains what the price quoted represents and the responsibility of the buyer and seller in relaton to arranging for the various costs associated(e.g. insurance, freight, duties) with the shipment. It is normally used in sea shipm ...

A common measurement of the internal volume of a ship with certain spaces excluded. One ton equals 100 cubic feet; the total of all the enclosed spaces within a ship expressed in tons each of which is equivalent to 100 cubic feet.

Steel section running along the length of each bottom edge of a shipping container giving its structural strength.

To bleed is the operation of draining any water out of a buoy which may have seeped inside after long use at sea.

Large ships dating back to the 17th century typically with three masts carrying rectangular sails mounted on horizontal spars called yards. A sailing-ship rig with rectangular sails set approximately at right angles to the keel line from horizontal yards.

A traditional term in the British Navy for serving out an additional tot of rum or grog to a ship's crew. In sailing ship days the main brace was spliced (in terms of drink) in very bad weather or after a period of severe exertion by the crew.

Consists of a vessel which is a combination of oil sump and oil separator, an oil cooler and an oil filter.

A securities market in which the difference between bid and offer prices is narrow and which.

Basic raw materials and foodstuffs such as metals, petroleum, coffee, grain.

The ship's funnel or smokestack.

The internal duct and filter medium support

A large body of fish.

A device for mounting cylinders.