A vessel whose bow and stern have drooped. The opposite of sagged.

The riding lights required to be carried by vessels at anchor.

Amount of unused space in a ship or a hold by virtue of the irregular shape of the cargo.

A formula of the specific factors or elements that control the making of a rate. A rate can be based on any number of factors (i.e., weight, measure, equipment type, package, box, etc.).

Screen of cloth or other material to give the crew protection against the weather, wind and water spray.

Usually refers to a rating that applies to an article regardless of size or quantity.

A label required on shipments of flammable articles.

Percentage of freight payable to broker (by owners in c/p's) or applicable to sale or purchase.

Pieces of plank bolted to the outer end of the bowsprit, to reeve the foretopmast stays through.

A form of steam engine where a piston moves back and forth inside a cylinder, transmitting its motion to a driving shaft by a connecting rod and crank.

Any object used to increase the drag of a boat and slow her down. Typically shaped like a parachute or cone opened underwater, drogues decrease a boat's speed in heavy weather. Also see sea anchor.

To coil flat down on deck, each fake outside the other, beginning in the middle and all close together.

A horseshoe-shaped or circular reef of coral surrounding a lagoon.

An anchor that is designed to bury itself into the ground by use of its plow shape. Also called a plow anchor.

The north end of the earth's axis and also called North Geographic Pole. The direction indicated by 000

An attachment point for another object.

A pressure below that of the existing atmospheric pressure taken as a zero reference.

A sound signal device (not necessarily mechanically operated).

see Bream

Shipment of goods to a foreign country.