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Document listing all personal goods of crew members.

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The ship that carries an admiral's flag.

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A small channel or opening in a filter medium which allows passage of gas.

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is an ideal process that may be stopped and made to retrace its steps and restore to the systems or surroundings all work and heat previously removed. It is frictionless.

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The latest time cargo may be delivered to a terminal for loading to a scheduled train or ship.

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2,204.6 pounds or 1,000 kilograms.

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A single masted cutter built expressly for the prevention of smuggling and the enforcement of customs regulations.

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A trailer or semi-trailer with no sides and with the floor of the unit close to the ground.

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The act of calling for freight by truck at the consignor's shipping platform.

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The borrowing of money by the master using his ship as security.

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On a square-rigged ship, the act of lowering a spar or yard to the deck.

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A pointed spar driven into the bottom and projecting above the water; when driven at the corners of a dock, they are termed fender piles.

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(1) A knot used to secure a line to another object such as a ring or cylindrical object or to another line; (2) Common term for an enlistment.

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The person or company who is usually the supplier or owner of commodities shipped. Also called Consignor.

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To throw an oar out of the rowlock, and raise it perpendicularly on its end, and lay it down in the boat, with its blade forward.

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Are lines that supply equipment from sub headers.

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The soft sandstone block sailors use to scrub the deck, so-called, because seamen were on their knees to use it.

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A dynamic compressor. A machine in which air or gas is compressed by the mechanical action of rotating vanes or impellers imparting velocity and pressure to the air or gas. In a centrifugal compressor, flow is in a radial direction. Air enters the compres ...

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The rotating element of a machine and, in the case of a compressor, is composed of the impeller (impellers) and shaft, and may include shaft sleeves and a thrust balancing device.

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The power required at the compressor drive shaft. Losses in external transmissions such as gears and belt drives are not included.

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