Openings in a ship's hull for ventilation, light and other purposes.

Amends the Act of 1984 to provide for confidential service contracts and other items.

A combination of one or more blocks and the associated tackle necessary to give a mechanical advantage. Useful for lifting heavy loads.

(1) Prospective course over the ground for boat to follow. (2) A strip of metal attached to a mast to take the slides affixed to the luff of a sail.

Arrangements with a steamship line to transport containerized cargo.

A measure of air compressor efficiency, usually in the form of bhp/100 acfm or acfm/bhp

The act of supporting anything by propping or shoring it up.

Fast boat used for passenger and cargo traffic in fairly sheltered waters.

Length of chain used for putting around logs or steel products.

Abbreviation for:- Port of Loading.- Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants.

Compressors in which successive volumes of air or gas are confined within a closed space, and compressed. They may be either reciprocating or rotating. (Trap air and then squeeze it to the desired pressure).

Specific Power Consumption.

A general nautical term for Canadians, but more especially for Nova Scotian sailing ships and men.

A large and powerful sheet winch

Compounds containing chlorine, fluorine or bromine, used as aerosol propellants, refrigerants, foaming agents and solvents and which, on decomposition by sunlight, produce oxides of chlorine responsible for the removal of ozone from the stratosphere.

A small toggle used on a flag.

(1) A spar that extends from the bow of the boat. (2) A spar stretching diagonally across a four-sided fore-and-aft sail to support the peak.

A navigational tool used to measure distances on a chart.

A hawser or line attached to an anchor.

An additional duty imposed to offset export grants, bounties or subsidies paid to foreign suppliers in certain countries by the government of that country for the purpose of promoting export.