Ship Shape to Shoe

In neat order; in a proper, seamanlike manner.

To be on shipboard is to be within a vessel.

The agreement signed by the officers (excepting the captain) and crew of a vessel, setting forth the character and length of the voyage, wages to be paid, etc.

A person appointed by the circuit courts of the United States under authority of Congress to superintend the shipping and discharge of seamen engaged in merchant ships belonging to the United States and for the protection of seamen in various ways.

The manner of telling the time on board ship is by striking the bell. Eight bells indicate midnight, 4 a. m., 8 a. m., Noon, 4 p. m., and 8 p. m. Thus it will be seen that every even four hours after midnight brings 8 bells around After midnight the first bell struck is 1, which stands for half-past twelve; one o'clock is represented by two bells; half-past one by 3 bells; two o'clock by 4 bells; half-past two by 5 bells; three o'clock by 6 bells; half-past three by 7 bells, and four o'clock by 8 bells. At half-past four 1 bell is struck, and so on, in the above order, until eight o'clock is made known by 8 bells again.

What is known as Ship's Business relates to those documents known as charter parties, bills of lading, bills of health, manifests, insurance, clearance, entrance, protests, surveys, bottomry, average and bills of exchange.

(See Carpenter).

The ship's overseer; one who attends to the vessel's repairs and transacts her business, etc.

The ship's register, enrollment, charter party, clearance, bill of health, etc.

In case of damage happening during the voyage, or it being suspected to ship or cargo, the master should within twenty-four hours of his arrival in port cause a notary public, or in a foreign port the American consul, to note a protest against "wind and weather."

To extend a protest is to give the particulars of the voyage, the storms encountered, as entered in the log book, and assert that any damage that may have happened was caused by winds, bad weather, etc.

A round of duties. Carrying on the business of the vessel according to established rules.

(See Storekeeper).

(See Surgeon).

A vessel's sails are said to shiver when she is luffed so close that the wind is spilled out of them.

An expression, like that of Tarry-top-lights, which is accredited by some novel writers to, but which is never used by, a true sailor.

Shallow; a bank of mud, rock, or sand.

A piece of wood upon which the heels of sheers rest; a piece of wood hollowed so as to allow the fluke point of an anchor to rest in it, and which prevents the bill of the anchor from tearing the ship's sides when it is being hoisted or lowered.