All boats are referred to as female. She is at anchor. Her sails are set. She is beautiful.

A container with a discharge hatch in the front wall; allows bulk commodities to be carried.

The unstable operation of a centrifugal compressor below the design point of the compressor.

– The reduction of rolling provides better fuel/speed performance on rough seas, enhances crew safety and possibly their efficiency. The roll amplitude can be reduced by passive devices, such as bilge keels, or by active devices, such as hydrofoilshaped ...

Applied to a wind, or movement of a vessel, to denote brisk and lively.

Eight double strokes on ship's bell; customarily struck at midnight when new year commences.

– Chemicals added to fuel, lubricating oils or fresh water to improve their physical or chemical characteristics

Technically, a flat-bottomed boat, but often used to name any small boat for rowing, sculling, or fitted with an outboard motor

Two iron flatsided hooks reversed to one another.

A fan that generates (by pushing) a flow of ambient air over the exterior of the finned pipes to dissipate the sensible heat.

Reduces the area of the mainsail by partially lowering the sail and re-securing the new foot by tying it to the boom with points, or light lines attached to the sail. Also called points reefing and jiffy reefing.

The volume displaced by the compressing element of the first stage per unit of time.

Document indicating the goods were loaded onboard when a document of title (b/L) is not needed. Typically used when a company is shipping goods to itself.

– The mass of water which is considered to be set in motion by a ship when heaving, pitching, rolling and vibrating.

1. A type of lifting gear often installed on stern of cable vessels, pipe-lying vessels and offshore construction vessels for sub sea load handling. 2. A fabricated steel structural element of a slow speed, two-stroke diesel engine. It stands on the bedp ...

All listed options of a particular type (i.e., call or put) on a particular underlying instrument,.

– Bonding strength; the attraction of a coating to the substrate, or to another film of paint or any other material such as steel.

The wheel operating the steering gear and by which the vessel is steered.

The Panama Canal Shipboard Oil Pollution Emergency Plan (PCSOPEP) is a program that seeks to implement emergency preparedness strategies for Panama Canal waters. The PCSOPEP services aids the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) in minimizing consequences of oil ...

A wire rope or line between davit heads.