Collier to Coralan

A vessel carrying coal as a cargo.

The national ensign, which is always flown from the stern of the vessel, either on a flagstaff or from the aftermost mast.

To come up in the wind is to luff; To come to is to anchor; To come up on a rope is to slack it; an anchor comes home when it is dragged towards the ship in heaving in the chain.

Said of a ship when her head approaches the direction of the wind.

The senior captain in a steamship line--seniority of service, not age.

A wooden slide or cover over the cabin staircase. The cover to the forecastle hatch is termed forecastle slide.

A ladder leading from the main deck to the poop.

The cabin staircase; the steps leading below from the spardeck.

A magnetic instrument which indicates the magnetic meridian, or the magnetic pole, and employed on board ship to obtain bearing of celestial and terrestrial objects and to steer courses. (See Part III.)

(See Flower of the Winds.)

A composite vessel has an iron frame and wooden planking.

(See Corposant.)

An instrument that nips a cable and prevents it from running out.

A pilotage law exacting pilotage from vessels entering and leaving port, whether they accept or refuse the services of a pilot.

A small rope leading through the centre of the steps of a stern ladder or a Jacob's ladder.

A marine lightning-rod, being a copper wire secured to and projecting above the truck, and leading over the vessel's side to the water.

Directing the helmsman how to put the wheel when running through a channel.

Agents appointed by the government to reside in seaport towns of foreign countries, and whose duty it is to guard the commercial interests of their nation. Consuls are authorized to receive the protests of masters; to administer on the estates of citizens dying within the limits of their consulates who have left no legal representative; to provide for destitute seamen of their own country and to send them home at government expense; to reclaim deserters from and to discountenance insubordination on board vessels flying the flag of their country; to discharge seamen for cause, and to investigate charges of irregularities preferred against the officers of a vessel by the crew, and to afford the latter protection, etc.

A Consul-General has jurisdiction over several consulates. Aids to consuls are Consular Agents, Deputy Consuls, and Vice-Consuls.

A ship which carries convicts to their destination.

One or more merchant vessels sailing in company with and under the protection of a man-of-war.

A reddish, malleable metal extracted from various ores. Thin sheets of it are used for sheathing the hulls of wooden vessels below the water line.

Said of a vessel when her hull is sheathed with copper.

A vessel is said to be copper-fastened when the bolts with which the vessel is fastened are of copper instead of iron.

The boilers, or large kettles, used for cooking.

An open boat used in the Mediterranean for coral fishing.