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123 Cards in this Set
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Captain |
Person in charge of the vessel and legally responsible for it and its occupants. |
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Chief Engineer |
The senior engineer officer responsible for the satisfactory woking and upkeep of the main and auxiliary machinery and boiler plant on board ship. |
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Chief Mate |
An officer in the deck department next in rank to the master; second in command of a ship. |
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Bosun |
Also called boatswain. Responsible for keeping hull, sails, and rigging in repair. |
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Officer |
Any of the licensed members of the ship’s complement. |
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Able Bodied Seamen |
A member of the deck crew who is able to preform all the duties of an experienced seamen. |
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Ordinary Seamen |
A deck crew member who is subordinate to able bodied seamen. |
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Deck Hand |
A seamen who works on the deck of a ship under the direct orders of the duty officers and bosun. |
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Accommodation Ladder |
The portable steps from the gangway down to the water line. |
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Brow |
A portable gangplank. |
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Admeasurement |
The confirmed or official dimensions of a ship. |
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Pier |
A place extending out into the water where vessels may dock, usually made of of wood or cement. |
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Pile |
A pole embedded in the sea bottom and used to support docks, piers, and other structures. |
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Camel |
1) A wooden float placed between a vessel and a dock and acting as a fender keeping a vessel from rubbing on the dock and assists in maneuvering the vessel around the end of the dock. 2) A large beam resembling a telephone pole, floating and secured alongside a dock. |
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Bollard |
A large pillar to which a boat’s mooring lines may be tied. |
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Cleat |
A fitting to which a line may be attached easily. |
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Alongside |
Side to side. |
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Companion Ladder |
A ladder between quarter deck and officer deck. |
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Bosun’s Locker |
A locker where tools for maintaining the hull, rigging, and sails are kept. |
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Bosun’s Chair |
A chair, traditionally made form a plant and rope, used to hoist workers loft to maintain rigging. |
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Chock |
A heavy wooden or metal fitting secured on a deck or on a dock, with jaws, used for the lead of lines or cables. |
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Bitts |
Any of the deck posts, often in pairs, around which lines or chains are wound and held fast. |
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Cradle |
A stowage rest for a ship’s boat. |
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Davit |
A curved metal spar fitting in a socket on deck and projecting over the side or stern for hanging a boat or handling weights. |
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Bullnose |
Chock placed right over the stem, “in the eyes” of the ship. |
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Aft |
Toward the stern of the boat. |
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Ahoy |
A term used in hailing a boat or vessel. |
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All-Hands |
The entire crew. |
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Aloft |
Above the upper deck. |
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Fantail |
The part of the stern of a vessel extending abaft the sternpost. |
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Forecastle |
1) The upper deck forward of the foremast. 2) A forward compartment where the deck live. |
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Seamanship |
Knowledge and skill pertaining to the operation, navigation, management, safety, and maintenance of a ship. |
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Amidships |
In the center of the boat. |
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Astern |
1) The bearing of an object 180 degrees from ahead. 2) Towards the stern of the vessel, or behind the boat. |
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Dunnage |
1) Loose material placed in holds for the cargo to rest on, or jammed between the cargo to wedge it. 2) A sailor’s personal effects. |
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Bow |
The forward part of a vessel’s sides. |
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Stern |
The after part of the boat. |
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Tension |
The act of stretching or straining. |
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Bow Painter |
The rope secured in the bow of a boat used for securing the boat. |
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Stopper |
1) A mechanical device or knot used to keep a rope from running. 2) A length of line attached to running with a rolling hitch in order to relieve strain on a running rigging. |
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Safety |
The quality of averting or not causing injury, danger, or loss. |
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Pelican Hook |
A hinged hook held together by a ring. When the ring is knocked the hook swings open. |
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Spar Buoy |
A buoy made of a spar with one end moored so that the other stands up. |
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Trip |
1) An act of going to a place and returning. 2) To stumble or fall due to catching you foot on something. |
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Field Day |
A general day for ship cleaning. |
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Fox Tail |
A short handled brush for sweeping small areas. |
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Gangway |
A raised platform for walking or providing passage. |
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Chafe |
To wear the surface of a rope or spar by rubbing. |
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Bolt |
A roll of canvas. |
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Canvas |
A tightly woven cloth used for sails, covers and bikinis. Typically made from cotton, hemp or linen. |
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Ditty Bag |
A small bag used by men-of-wars men to stow small articles of wearing apparel. |
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Palm and Needle |
A seaman’s sewing outfit for heavy work. |
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Grommet |
A ring or eyelet normally used to attack a line, such as on a sail |
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Inboard |
Towards the fore-and-aft line of the ship. |
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Jacob’s Ladder |
A ladder or rope with rungs used over the side and aloft. |
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Life Boat |
A small boat used for emergencies, such as when the parent boat is sinking. |
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Life Jacket |
A device used to keep a person afloat. Also called a personal flotation device or pfd. |
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SOLAS |
Series of international conventions to governing maritime safety. |
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Fake |
A single turn of rope when a rope is coiled down. |
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Faking |
Laying a line on deck in a series of figure eights so the line will run free without tangling. |
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Flaking |
laying out line on deck in parallel rows. Don't confuse with faking. |
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Coil |
1) Rope made into a neat series of loops or circles, usually for storing. 2) To lay down rope in circular turns. |
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Flemish |
Take end of a line and lay it in a tight flat spiral on the deck. Used to “tidy” up and keep line neat. |
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Bight |
The part of the rope between the end and the standing part. A loop formed by fooling the rope back on itself. |
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Bitter End |
The free end of a line. |
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Chafing Gear |
A guard of canvas or rope around spars or rigging to the chafe. |
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Winch |
A horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope is retracted. |
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Fake Down |
To fake line back and forth on a deck. |
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Grapnel |
A small anchor with several arms used for dragging purposes. |
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End For End |
Reversing the position of an object |
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Handy Billy |
A watch tackle; a small portable force pump. |
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Fid |
A tapered wooden pin used to separate the strands when splicing heavy rope. |
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Fiber Rope |
Hemp and manila rope |
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Eye |
A loop made in the end of a rope either by knotting, seizing or splicing. |
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Jute Rope |
Rope made form the fiber of a jute plant |
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Kackling or Keckling |
Old rope passed around hawsers and cable to prevent chafe at the hawse pipes. |
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Loop Knot |
A closed and knotted bight. An Eye Splice is a Multi-Strand Loop Knot. |
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Lizard Line |
1) A short pennant with a bull’s eye or thinly splice in one end. 2) A rope fitted with a thimble or thimbles and used as a leader for running rigging |
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Cordage |
A general term for rope of all kinds. |
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Nylon |
A tough, lightweight, elastic synthetic polymer with a protein like chemical structure, able to be produced as filaments, sheets, or molded objects. |
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Manila |
A rope made from the fibers of the abaca plant. |
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Fibers |
A thread or filament from which a vegetable tissue, mineral substance, or textile is formed. |
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Rope |
Traditionally, a line must be over 1 inch in size to be called a rope. |
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Rope Yarn |
Twisted fibers used for rough seizings, and which may be twisted into strands. |
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Strands |
A number of yarns twisted together, and which in turn may be twisted into rope. |
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Lay |
1) A preliminary order, e.g.,:lay aloft, lay out, etc. 2) The direction of the twist of strands of a rope. |
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Plat |
To braid; used with small stuff. |
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Small Stuff |
A small cordage designated by number of threads or special names, such as ratline stuff, marlins, etc., usually of American hemp, tarred. |
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Serving |
Winding a small line against the lay and over worming and parcelling to protect line from chafe and water damage. |
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Thread |
Yarns making up strands; small rope is sometime designated by the number of threats going to make up a strand; e.g.: six thread, fifteen thread, etc. |
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Twine |
Strong thread or string consisting of two or more strands of hemp, cotton, or nylon twisted together. |
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Hemp |
Rope made of fibers of the hemp plant; used for small stuff of less than 24 thread. |
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Marline |
Two-stranded, left handed rope; used for fine seizings and for sennit. |
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Cord |
A line formed by several yarns with an extra twist laid up in the opposite direction. |
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Right-Handed |
Twisted from left to right or clockwise; yarn and rope is usually right-handed. |
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Marry |
To place two ropes together as in hoisting a boat; to temporarily sew the ends of two ropes together for rendering through a block. |
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Heaving Line |
A lightweight line with a weight at the end, made to be thrown between a ship and the shore, or from one ship to another, and used to pull a heavier line across. |
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Fender |
A cushion hung from the sides of a boat to protect it from rubbing against a dock or another boat. |
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Moor |
A permanent anchor. |
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Fair Lead |
An eye to furnish a clear lead. |
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Lash |
The order to lash up the hammocks and stow them in the nettings. |
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Heave |
To throw or pull strongly on a line. |
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Steading Line |
Line attached to another object or line to direct it where you want. |
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Turnbuckle |
A coupling with female screw threads used to connect two rods, lengths of boat rigging, etc., lengthwise and to regulate their length or tension. |
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Rat Guard |
A cone-shaped shield placed over dock lines to keep rats from climbing on board. |
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Round Turns |
Complete turn of rope around another rope or object. |
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Capstan |
The vertical barrel situated on the forecastle and geared to the windlass. |
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Block |
One or more pulleys designed to carry a line and change the direction of its travel. |
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Tackle |
A mechanism consisting of ropes, pulley blocks, hooks, or other things for lifting heavy objects. |
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Jury Rig |
A makeshift rig. |
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Cow’s Tail |
The frayed or untidy end of a rope. |
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Rattail Stopper |
A breaded tapering stopper used on boat falls, mooring lines, etc. |
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Porcupine |
The fraying of wire rope. |
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Turn |
A loop formed around a post, rail, or the line itself. |
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Worming |
Laying smaller line in the spiral grooves (with the lay) between line strands. |
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Wire Rope Clips |
“U” shaped metal clamps for holding two parts of wire together. |
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ABS |
American Bureau of Shipping: A U.S.- based private classification, or standards setting society for merchant ships and other marine systems. |
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AAOSA |
1) Always afloat or safe aground. 2) The condition for a vessel while in Port. |
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Hawser |
A large rope used for heavy work, such as towing. |
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Halyard |
A line used to hoist a sail or spar. The tightness of the halyard can affect sail shape. |
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Fathom |
A unit of length equal to six feet used principally in the measurement and specification of marine depths. |
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Avast |
An order to stop or cease hauling. |
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Belay |
1) To make fast to a pin or cleat. 2) To rescind an order. |
