A person who deals in the selling of provisions, dried stores, etc.

Seaman's name for the excitement on board as the ship approachs her destination, giving the crew some liberty ashore.

Type of bulk carrier built for the carriage of coal.

A chemical element that is a heavy strong smelling greenish yellow imitating gas used as a bleach, oxidizing agent and disinfectant. Found in some ambient air conditions.

Small hole bored in cask or barrel to allow air to enter when emptying.

This term is used for turbo compressors and represents the maximum flow condition. It is sometimes also referred to as stonewalling.

A stay from the stem of a boat to the end of the bowsprit used to counteract the upward pull of the forestay.

A crane, with its boom structure consisting of several sections, each section being capable of telescoping along the boom’s axial direction and changing its boom length, and its boom being of luffing.

Is a means of transferring heat through mass flow. Also the transfer of heat within a fluid by movements within the fluid.

Watertight housing for the centerboard.

The A.S.M.E. Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code.

Convention on International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea.

(1) A point of sail between close-hauled and a run, with the wind coming from abeam. (2) A distance, or fetch. (3) Straight stretch of water between two bends in a river or channel.

An intermodal system for transporting containers by ocean and then by rail or motor to a port previously served as an allwater move (e.g., Hong Kong to New York over Seattle).

An agreement between parties that allows the efficient use and supply of containers. A common supply of containers available to the shipper as required.

Group of ships escorted along a stretch of water.

A card labeling the 360

A sail attached to the forestay as opposed to a jib which is attached to the headstay.

A large body of fish.

This property of a gas is the weight of air or gas per unit volume. Unless specified, it refers in compressor practice to the weight per unit volume at conditions of total temperature, total pressure and composition which prevail at the compressor intake.