The rear of a ship.

Allows equipment and supplies arriving at one port to be loaded on a vessel, aircraft, etc., for its exclusive use and to be exported from the same port.

Ratio between measured shaft power and the adiabatic compression power, referring to measured mass flow.

Undisturbed environmental surroundings, particularly to air and temperature.

Negligence or fraud on the part of the Master or crew resulting in a loss to the owners.

All (not just 98%) particles larger than the stated micron size have been removed from the fluid being filtered.

Said of a rope when it is under such tension that it is practically rigid.

Also known as a preferred channel buoy. A red and green horizontally striped buoy used in the United States to mark the separation of a channel into two channels. The preferred channel is indicated by the color of the uppermost stripe. Red on top indicate ...

Nickname for waves breaking into foam.

To move cargo up line to a vessel leaving sooner than the one booked. (See "Roll.")

The act of decoying a ship ashore by means of false lights.

Large and long-winged seabird of the southern hemisphere capable of long flights. It was believed among seamen that albatrosses embodied the souls of dead sailors, and it was considered unlucky to kill one.

Numerous shipments from different shippers to one consignee that are consolidated and treated as a single consignment.

Lines on the Earths surface joining point where there is no magnetic variation.

The temperature of a body referred to the absolute zero, at which point the volume of an ideal gas theoretically becomes zero. (Fahrenheit scale is minus 459.67

The law of the sea; jurisdiction over maritime causes.

Charge assessed by a pier or dock owner against freight handled over the pier or dock or against a steamship company using the pier or dock.

The value of a shipment agreed upon in order to secure a specific freight rate.

A component on a compressed air line designed to increase in magnitude the flow by releasing small amounts of compressed air at high velocity through an internal, ring shaped nozzle. This column of air released through the front creates a vacuum behind, t ...

A method causing a liquid or gas to condense on the surface only of an adsorbing material.