This type of insurance offers the shipper the broadest coverage available, covering against all losses that may occur in transit.

Abbreviation for "Standard Transportation Commodity Code."

Going sideways due to a current's set.

Wood boards used to cover the ribs, frames, deck or hull of a wooden vessel.

To braid used with small stuff.

In spray painting applications, a sealed paint cup with a paint gun which puts a measured amount of air pressure into it. This then forces the paint to the gun for atomization.

A two-masted vessel with foremast square rigged, and mainmast fore and aft rigged. Originally, a ship of brigands, or pirates.

An untidy loose end of a rope (or rags).

To place pieces of dunnage in between pieces of cargo in order to prevent shifting of the cargo.

A ship builder, or one who works about a ship. Does wood carpentry on the ship and keeps ships faired. Builds launching ways and launches ship.

A vertical support for guardrails and lifelines.

The pressure at which a pressure operated valve begins to pass a gas.

Procedure where carrier tests the temperature of the internal flesh of refrigerated commodities to assure that the temperature at time of shipment conforms to prescribed temperature ranges.

Goods from a captured ship which was permitted to be distributed among the captors at once.

Two lines spliced together to form an eye.

Sailor's slang for anchor.

An adiabatic compression with no increase in entropy; a reversible-adiabatic compression.

Circular metallic elements that ride in the grooves of a piston and provide compression sealing during combustion. Also used to spread oil for lubrication.

Passing another vessel.

An enemy vessel captured at sea by a privateer or a ship of war. The term is also applied to contraband cargo taken from a merchant ship.