A pump consisting of a shaft to which vanes are attached and which rotates in a circular casing. Water or liquid flows into the casing near the center of the rotating shaft and is propelled outward along the vanes by centrifugal force. It escapes through a discharge pipe at the circumference of the casing. … [Read more...]

A horizontal fore-and-aft reference line for athwartship ship measurements, dividing the vessel into two symmetrical halves. … [Read more...]

Cargo tanks located on the vessel’s centerline. … [Read more...]

A raised bridge running fore and aft from the Midship House, and also called "walkway." It affords safe passage over the pipelines and other deck obstructions. … [Read more...]

case of death in an accident or shipping disaster … [Read more...]

To let go. … [Read more...]

Pump used on tankers for discharging cargo and loading or discharging ballast. Located, at the bottom of the pump room, these pumps are usually of the common duplex type, or turbine type of which the centrifugal is the most common. … [Read more...]

A plan giving the quantities and description of the various grades carried in the ship’s cargo tanks. … [Read more...]

The four principal points of the compass: North, East, South and West. … [Read more...]

A seamark, i.e. a buoy, indicating the north, east, south or west, i.e. the cardinal points from a fixed point such as a wreck, shallow water, banks, etc. … [Read more...]