Voyages where the ship is not generally underway for periods long enough for seafarers to require sleep, or long off-duty periods, during the voyages.

Term life insurance which can be converted into cash value insurance. In the UK the equivalent.

Equipped to assist during offshore construction and maintenance work.

The two months before a company announces its results in which directors are prohibited from dealing.

A public/private initiative to promote the efficiency of compressed air in the US.

A block with one end permanently attached to a surface.

A rating who tends to the pumps of an oil tanker.

Order to take off a damaged part of a vessel, to restore it to its proper shape and condition, and to replace it in position.

Abbreviation for "Cost and Insurance." A price that includes the cost of the goods, the marine insurance and all transportation charges except the ocean freight to the named point of destination.

Line used for checking a vessel's way when warping her into a dock or basin.

A device that changes a vapor into a liquid. Accomplished by exposing a tube containing vapor to air or by passing the tube through a water jacket.

Remove unnecessary things from the decks usually in preparation for oncoming bad weather.

An anchor is said to come home when its flukes are not holding in the ground and it drags.

The compressor continuously compresses, however, when the maximum pressure is reached, the delivered air is blown off to the atmosphere instead of being fed to the receiver.

A clause in a Bill of lading which specifies the least charge that the carrier will make for issuing a lading. The charge may be a definite sum or the current charge per ton for any specified quantity.

A bar which projects above the coaming and which bears against a continuous rubber gasket strip set into the hatch panels of steel hatch covers in order to provide a weathertight seal.

The direction of a ship's heading as read on a compass. The compass course has added the magnetic deviation and the magnetic variation to the true course.

A winch with one or more rope storage drums for veering out, hauling in or making fast tow ropes.

A kind of winch, which is applied on sweep/survey ship for receiving/ throwing and towing the sweeping apparatus and hawser, and performing of sweeping the sediments under sea.

Cost, Insurance, Freight, Interest and Exchange.