Dining room facilities and kitchen for crew separate from the passenger dining room and kitchen.

Small staysail located between the foremast and mainmast.

Combination minimum pressure valve and check valve.

To break loose from a mooring, anchor or docking.

The windward side (from where the wind is blowing).

To haul in or bind something together in order to create more space.

Nickname for a ship's cooper.

Having no sails up. In heavy weather the windage of the mast and other spars can still be enough to move the boat.

The part of the rotating element of a dynamic compressor that imparts energy to the flowing medium by means of centrifugal force. It consists of a number of blades mounted so as to rotate with the shaft.

Ropes hung and used for assistance in ascending and descending.

The country in which the vessel is registered.

The total rate from the point of origin to final destination.

Official terminology for life jacket. When properly used a PFD will support a person in the water. Also called a life jacket, life preserver or life vest.

Transaction or interchange that occurs at the time a container leaves a rail or water terminal.

A depth measuring device.

The bearing of an object after magnetic variation has been considered, but without compensation for magnetic deviation.

The top of a mast.

The bridge used for taking observations, or directing the handling of the ship.

A stationary vessel carrying a light used for navigation, serving the same purpose as a lighthouse.

Goods floating on surface of sea after a wreck.