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A conduit for disposing of refuse-especially that the ship/s galley.

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Tanks carried in various parts of a ship for water ballast, for stability and to make the ship seaworthy.

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A certificate authenticated by a recognized port authority, certifying that a ship comes from a place where there is no contagious disease, and that none of her crew was infected with such a disease.

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The lower yard on a mizzen mast of a square-rigged ship.

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Is the temperature at the inlet flange of the compressor.

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To transfer goods from one transportation line to another, or from one ship to another.

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A device used to keep a line from slipping, such as a jamcleat.

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The act of breaking out the flukes of an anchor if they are caught on some obstruction, preventing it from being normally weighed.

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Lights required to be shown on boats underway between sundown and sunup.

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Above the main deck.

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Are used with ejectors to convert weight of gas and/or water vapor handled to or from equivalent air.

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Too heavy aloft.

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Any steel bar or column, fitted vertically, to support a deck, or any part of a ship's structure. Also called a stanchion.

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A flying bridge on top of a pilothouse or chart house.

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A deck crew member who is subordinate to the Able Bodied Seamen.

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A unit of pressure used with vacuum pumps, equal to 1mm of mercury and 133.32 Pascal's.

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A draft that matures either a certain number of days after acceptance or a certain number of days after the date of the draft.

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British standard pipe parallel.

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Compartment for the storage of oil or other fuel.

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TRADES Foreign-to-foreign trade carried by ships from a nation other than the two trading nations.

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