Provision in a salvage agreement that money is not payable unless the property is salved in accordance with that accordance.

For ships, a cargo handling area parallel to the shoreline where a vessel normally ties up.- For land transportation, a loading or unloading platform at an industrial location or carrier terminal.

To reeve and secure a line.

Hard surfaced area of the quay on which shipping containers are assembled before loading.

(turbine oils) -- a test for determining the ability of an oil to aid in preventing the rusting of ferrous parts in the presence of water.

A receptacle, open to atmosphere, that is used to used to collect condensate. For example, two or three drain pipes from various filters may be discharging into a funnel. In this case the funnel is a tundish.

A mechanical, electrical, or manually operated pump used to remove water from the bilge.

To make a rope fast by turns round a pin or coil, without hitching or seizing it.

Place where cargo is transferred to another carrier.

Required lights on a boat help others determine its course, position and what it is doing. Boats underway should have a red light visible from its port bow, a green light on the starboard bow and a white light at its stern. Other lights are required for v ...

Deeper forward (front end deepest in water).

Periodic publications containing details of any alterations to charts, to keep them up to date.

A slang term for an open-top trailer or container with a tarpaulin cover.

Recovering and utilizing the heat content of the compressed air.

A kind of navigational buoy

A canvas canopy secured over the ship's deck as a protection from the weather (covering).

To install the sails on the boom or the forestay.

Said of the anchor when just clear of the bottom (leaving or moving).

A pulpit located on the stern.

Short period oscillation in level of enclosed, or partly enclosed, area of water when not due to the action of tide-raising forces.