Ease Off to Entering

To slacken; to come up with.

(See Ease Her.) To throw the guns overboard.

An order not to pull or haul strongly.

Making progress against the wind when close hauled.

To gradually decline from the course, or from the shore.

A gradual approach towards the shore, or a vessel, or other object.

To make good a deficiency in the length of a timber.

When two crosses exist in a hawse, owing to the bad trending of a vessel.

An eye in the end of a hawser containing a thimble.

A stern shaped in a manner to resemble the section of a cone; an oval-shaped stern.

Moving anything so that it will assume a reverse position.

?o advance head on against anything, such as a vessel, or the shore, or other object.

The bell signals rung by the deck officers to the engineer in the engine-room to direct the movements of the engines. (See Part IV.)

A circular instrument placed on the bridge and elsewhere about the decks of steamships, and worked by a short lever connecting with the engine-room, and by the manipulation of which lever the deck officer transmits signals to the engineer. The upper half-circle of the instrument has printed on it the words half speed ahead, stop, full speed astern, etc., and by moving the lever to one of these the corresponding word or words is pointed to by an indicator on the engine-room dial.

(See Engine-room Bells.)

Engineers on board merchant ships are classed as Chief, First, Second, and Third Assistant.

The wind is said to enlarge when it draws more aft.

A marine document issued to a vessel of the United States by the customs officials. Vessels of twenty tons and upward engaged in domestic trade, in the fisheries, or in foreign trade on the inland northern frontiers of the United States, must (if they are not under register) be enrolled. But an enrolled vessel cannot engage in foreign trade by sea. The enrollment identifies the vessel in the following particulars: nationality, official number, ownership, vessel's name, home port, name of master, year of building, place of building, name of the measurer, number of decks, number of masts, rig of vessel, dimensions, and tonnage. The enrollment continues in force indefinitely, unless the rig of the vessel, or the tonnage of same, or the ownership changes, in which case a new enrollment must be obtained. Yachts may be enrolled, although it is not compulsory.

The national flag.

The halliards by which the ensign is hoisted, whether the latter is shown at the stern or at the peak.

To enter a vessel the master must report himself upon arrival to the customs officials, and furnish them with a manifest setting forth all the details of his vessel's cargo, and to this paper the master must take oath, and the vessel shall not be considered as being regularly entered until the manifest has been accepted by the collector.