Abbreviation for "Destination Rail Freight Station." Same as CFS at destination, except a DRFS is operated by the rail carrier participating in the shipment.

An imaginary line around the center of the earth at 0

A small storm jib made of very heavy cloth.

An automatic or manual valve that causes the flow to be by passed.

Horizontally mounted block used to re-direct a line on deck.

Leave the vessel.

An electrical discharge caused by certain atmospheric conditions, which takes place around the rigging. Known by many other names, it was regarded by many superstitious seamen as a favorable omen, foretelling the end of stormy weather. And others believed ...

A port where cargo is received by the ocean carrier and stuffed into containers but then moved to another coastal port to be waded on a vessel.

Cycles per minute - a unit of measure of the frequency of any vibration.

The fluid entering a component.

A flat bottomed, blunt nosed dinghy (or small boat).

A mast that is in place is stepped.

A laborer who works at loading and discharging cargo.

Loose ends of line left hanging over a ship's side.

An opening in a deck, cockpit, toe-rail or gunwale to allow water to run off the deck and drain back into the sea.

A platform and protective coaming setting high up on a mast, to accommodate the look-out aloft while the ship is at sea.

A heavy longitudinal timber placed over the keel in a ship's stern through which the propeller shaft passes.

The man stationed aloft or in the bows for observing and reporting objects seen.

A term which describes the rising of warm air above cold air when two air masses of different temperatures, humidity and pressure meet.

The place to which a shipment is consigned.- The place where carrier actually turns over cargo to consignee or his agent.