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Glossary

Anchorage – Place for vessels to anchor.
Anhydrous
- Without water; especially without water of crystallization.
B
Bagging
- Coarse fabric used for bags or sacks.
Ballast – Any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship.
Barge – A flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals).
Basin – A bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids.
Bath – A vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed (as to process it or to maintain it at a constant temperature or to lubricate it).
Beamer – The broad side of a ship.
Berths – A bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers.
Boats – A small vessel for travel on water.
Bollards -A strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines).
Bow – Front part of a vessel or aircraft.
Breadth – The extent of something from side to side.
Bulkheads – A partition that divides a ship or plane into compartments.
Butadiene – A gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; used in making synthetic rubbers.
Butane – Occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels.
Butene – Any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers.
C
Capstan  – A windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails.
Cargo – Goods carried by a large vehicle.
Cargo Vessel – A ship designed to carry cargo.
Carrier – A large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings.
Celsius – Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744).
Coast – The shore of a sea or ocean.
Container – Any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another).
Convoy – A collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships.
Cranes – Lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis.
Crew – An organized group of workmen.
Cubic meter – A metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters.
D
Danube – The 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea.
Deadweight – A heavy motionless weight.
Deck – Any of various platforms built into a vessel.
Diesel – An internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil.
Dock – Landing in a harbor next to a pier where ships are loaded and unloaded or repaired; may have gates to let water in or out.
Docking – The act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes.
Draught – The depth of a vessel’s keel below the surface (especially when loaded).
Drum – A cylindrical metal container used for shipping or storage of liquids.
E
Engine – Motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work.
DWT – deadweight measurement tones
Equipped -Provided or fitted out with what is necessary, useful, or appropriate.
Ethane – A colorless odorless alkane gas used as fuel.
Ethylene – A flammable colorless gaseous alkene; obtained from petroleum and natural gas and used in manufacturing many other chemicals; sometimes used as an anesthetic.
F
Floating – Borne up by or suspended in a liquid.
Forecastle – Living quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed.
Fuel – A substance that can be consumed to produce energy.
H
Harbour – A sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo.
Hatch – A movable barrier covering a hatchway.
Hatch – A movable barrier covering a hatchway.
Hauling – The activity of transporting goods by truck.
Hold – The space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo.
K
Knots – A unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude.
KW – A unit of power equal to 1000 watts.
L
Liquefied – Reduced to a liquid state.
Lubricating – Make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant.
M
Marine – Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.
Mooring – (Nautical) A line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place.
Multipurpose – Having multiple uses.
N
Naval – Connected with or belonging to or used in a navy.
O
Oceangoing – Used on the high seas.
Offshore – At some distance from the shore.
Outfitting – The act of renovating and fitting out a ship.
P
Pallet – A portable platform for storing or moving goods that are stacked on it.
Poop – The rear part of a ship.
Propane – Colorless gas found in natural gas and petroleum; used as a fuel.
Propene -A flammable gas obtained by cracking petroleum; used in organic synthesis.
Q
Quay – Wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline.
R
River – A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek).
Romania – A republic in southeastern Europe with a short coastline on the Black Sea.
RPM – Rate of revolution of a motor.
Rudder -Steering mechanism consisting of a hinged vertical plate mounted at the stern of a vessel.
S
Sea –A division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land.
Sewage – Waste matter carried away in sewers or drains.
Ship – A vessel that carries passengers or freight.
Shipping – The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials.
Shipyard – A workplace where ships are built or repaired.
Shrimp – Small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible.
Slipway – Structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired.
Speed – Distance travelled per unit time.
Stack – A storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored .
Steel – An alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range.
Stem -Front part of a vessel or aircraft.
Superstructure -Structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck.
T
Tank – A large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids.
Tonne – A unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
Transport – The act of moving something from one location to another.
V
Vessel – A craft designed for water transportation.
W
Water – The part of the earth’s surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean).
Weight – A unit used to measure weight.
Welded – A metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together.
Wheelhouse – An enclosed compartment from which a vessel can be navigated.
Winch – Lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds.
Windlasses – Lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds.


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