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Abeam 90 degrees from where the ship is pointing.

Aboard "I climbed aboard the boat"

Accommodation Accommodation is the living space of a ship

Admiralty law A body of law that governs nautical issues and maritime disputes.

Aft A direction towards the stern.

Ahead Refers to a boat moving in a forward direction.

Aloft High up

Alongside The position of a vessel when securely moored on a berth in port.

Amidships A given helmsman order to put the rudder in a neutral position

Anchor Anchor The anchor is a big metal structure that is lowerd to the seabed to keep the vessel in a specific place.

Anchor chain The chain between the anchor and the vessel.

Antenna often positioned on top of a building or vehicle, that receives or sends radio signals

Astern Astern: toward the rear of a ship (opposite of forward).

Ballalst The intake of water from the outside to lower the ship and stabilizing the vessel.

Ballast pump Ballast pumps are the pumps that transfer vast amounts of sea water into the marine vessels’ ballast tanks or to empty if necessary

Ballast tanks The ballast tanks are usually placed in the lower part of the ship.

Ballasting The procedure during which seawater ballast is introduced in specific tanks to achieve a desired stability, draught and trim.

Barge A barge is a flat bottomed vessel, mainly used in canals and rivers

Beam The beam is widest point of the vessel, and is used to define the maximum width of the hull.

Bearing The angle between true north and an object, for example a beacon.

Bilges The lowest portion of a ship inside the hull, considering the inner bottom where fitted as the bottom hull limit.

Boat deck Boat deck A superstructure deck on which most of the lifeboats of a ship are stowed.

Boiler Any vessel, container or receptacle that is capable of generating steam by the internal or external application of heat.

Bosun As deck crew foreman, the bosun plans the day's work and assigns tasks to the deck crew.

Bow The structural arrangement and form of the forward end of the ship.

Bowels The engine room is down in the bowels of the ship

Bridge The bridge is the place where you command and navigate the ship.

Bridge wing Parts on each side of the wheelhouse that extend to the ships side

Bulbous bow Bulbous bow A bulb on the front part of the ship (bow) which helps reduce the drag of oncoming water resulting in higher speed.

Bulkheads Bulkheads An upright wall within the hull of a ship with the purpose of increasing structual rigidity and creat watertight compartments in case of a hull breach.

Buoyancy Buoyancy is the force that keeps the object afloat.

Cabin A cabin onboard a ship is a room for accommodation for one or more crewmembers or passengers

Cadet A novice at sea who has to learn the basics at sea before further climbing up the ranks.

Call sign A unique alphabetical identity for a vessel.

Capsize Capsizing or keeling over occurs when a boat or ship is turned on its side or it is upside down in the water

Captain The highest ranked crew member onboard.

Captain's table he table at which the captain along with the higher ranked officers eat in company with a few privileged passengers.

Cargo nets Used to secure loads to prevent them from shifting or falling.

Chain locker A space in the forward part of the ship that contains the anchor chain.

Chart A nautical chart is a graphic representation of a sea area and adjacent coastal regions.

Chartroom A compartment on or near the bridge of a ship where charts and other navigational equipment are kept and used.

Chief officer Is second in command and responsible for the deck crew.

Chief Petty Officer The highest ranks as a non-commisioned officer in the US Navy

Chief Purser The Chief Purser is responsible for managing the financial and administrative affairs on a cruise ship, including the availability of cash.

Chronometer An instrument for messuring time, designed to keep accurate time inspite of motion.

Circumnavigate to go around or avoid an object

Cloudless No clouds in the sky

Coast Is defined as the area where land meets the sea or ocean

Coast Guard A national organization tasked with assisting vessels and upholding maritime law.

Coastal waters Is part of a land's territorial waters. Coastal water can maximum be 12 Natical miles from the coast.

Collision Collision is an impact of the sudden, forceful coming together in direct contact of two or more bodies/objects.

Collision course A course which if maintained will result in the collision between two or more vessels.

Compass A compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions

Course The direction in degrees in which the ship is heading.

Course recorder Course recorder is navigational equipment for automatically recording the course of vessel over period of time

Crew A crew is a group of people whose task is to operate a ship

Crew member A member of a group of people who work together

Crow’s nest A platform where the lookout is standing, often high up in the vessel’s main mast.

Current A continuous movement of sea water.

Cursor A movable indicator on a display

Davit A davit is any of various crane-like devices used on a ship for supporting, raising, and lowering equipment such as boats and anchors.

Dead reckoning A way to estimate your location on your voyage with your course and log

Deck Floors on ships are called deck.

Deck light Equipment used in order to illuminate decks when the visibility is low due to darkness.

Decompression ecompression, the reduction of ambient pressure after an ascend beneath the surface.

Deep sea diving Is diving deeper than 30 meters.

Deep tank A portion of a ship's hold bulkheaded off to hold water

Diving bell A chamber used to transport divers from the surface to depth and back in open water, usually for the purpose of performing underwater work.

Double bottom Where a ship has a void space between 2 bottoms of the ship. In case of an opening in the outer layer, the inner layer will stop the water from entering the whole ship.

Eke out Make supply/salary last longer.

Engine Room Engine room is the place on board a ship where the machinery and electric system of the ship are located

Engine Telegraph Is located on the bridge of the ship and is used for sending orders regarding the requested engine speed and direction down to the engine room.

Engineer a person responsible for the ship's pollution, electricity, water, drain, air condition and many other technical and mechanical systems on board a ship.

Ensign 1. The national flag. 2. A junior officer.

Entrapped To lure into danger, a compromising situation.

Erring Capable of making an error

Exacting Making great demands on ones skill.

Exclaim To cry out suddenly.

Fantail The overhanging part of a ship's stern

Fatigued To tire out, exhaust.

Flag Ship Flag Ship Flag ship is the lead ship in a fleet of vessels, typically the first, largest, fastest, most heavily armed, or best known.

Fleet Several vessels sailing together, often used when talking about the military (naval fleet).

Fog Tiny water droplets in the air resulting in restricted visibility.

Fog Signals When ships are traveling in restricted visibility, they need to sound different signals to inform other ships around their place and position.

Foghorn Used to warn other vessels about navigational hazards.

Forecast A statement of what is judged likely to happen in the future.

Forecastle The forward part of a ship, on the upper deck.

Foreship A word for the foremost part of the ship.

Freighter A freighter is a merchant ship that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another.

Freshwater tank Freshwater tank Where the freshwater is stored.

Fuel Material such as coal, gas, or oil that is burned to produce heat or power.

Fuel Tank Is a tank were fuel is stored.

Full astern Reversing the propulsion to go at max speed aftward.

Funnel A chimney on a ship used to expel engine exhaust.

Gangplank A connection for loading and off-loading passengers.

Generator A machine which converts mechanical power into electrical power.

Gleam A brief beam or flash of light

Good seamanship 's about having good control of your boat with your knowledge,

Gyrocompass A type of compass that is not magnetic (does not need to be corrected to deviation or magnetic variation).

Harbour A facility for parking boats, by easily transporting goods and people between ships and land.

Hawse pipe A pipe where the anchor chain pass through.

Hawser A heavy rope for mooring or towing.

Head on With the head or front making the initial contact.

Helmsman person who steers the ship via the wheel by orders from the OOW.

Home port Is the port in which a ship is documented

Hull Is the main body of the ship with its sides and bottom structure without any of the decks or the interior.

Icebreaking bow A bow that breaks ice on top of the ice using the weight of the vessel itself.

Inert Incapable of moving or acting.

Jacob's ladder They are used to allow access over the side of ships. Pilot ladders are often incorrectly referred to as Jacob's ladders

Junior Officer The lower of the ranks regarding officers.

Keel Lowest point of the ship. Helps the ship stabilizing

Knots It is a unit of speed that are used on sea. A knot is one nautical mile per hour and a nautical mile is 1852m.

Landfall Reaching "visible" land during a journey across a body of water. Note that the term can be applied to both vessels and aircrafts

Latitude Latitudes are geographical lines reaching around the earth that specifies your location in a north-south direction.

Launch o set, a boat, in motion by pushing it or allowing it to roll into the water.

Leviathan Sea monster, huge thing.

Liability Something for which one is liable; an obligation, responsibility, or debt.

Life jacket A life jacket is a piece of equipment designed to assist a wearer to keep afloat in water.

Lifeboat An emergency boat that can accommodate a lot of people off a ship with an emergency.

Lightship A ship combined with a lighthouse. Keeps the position with an anchor connected to the seabed.

Liner An ocean liner is a passenger ship primarily used as a form of transportation across seas or oceans.

List Listing is when a vessel tilts to one side. A ship can list to either port and starboard.

Log To officially record something.

Logbook A logbook is a record of important events in the management, operation, and navigation of a ship.

Longshoreman A laborer who works with loading and discharging cargo.

Lookout A seaman stationed on the bridge who is responsible for searching for other vessels and/or other dangerous objects using vision and hearing.

Lounge A room that is used for relaxing and entertaining.

M/S Motor ship

Maiden voyage Maiden voyage The first voyage made by a vessel.

Main engine The engine that propels the vessel.

Mast A upright pole or post. Sails and flags are usually attached to these tall structures.

Master A term for the captain.

Midships The middle of the ship.

Mitigate To make less severe or intense; to moderate or alleviate.

Mooring ooring is when you attached and secure the ship at berth. The mooring lines are used to secure the ship and for preventing it from moving.

Mooring lines Mooring lines Often made out of thick ropes, are used to secure a ship and forestall free movement in the water.

Mother ship A larger ship that leads or serves smaller ships, in this case the lifeboats.

Motorship It's a ship, or also known as boat, that is driven by a motor of some kind. However, the ship in question could have a sail onboard as well, or oars for that matter.

Muster station A place on the ship where passengers and/or crew should assemble in the event of an emergency.

Nautical mile A nautical mile is a unit of measurement at sea. 1 Nautical mile is 1852 meters long

Navigation lights Used to prevent collisions at night or in case of impaired vision. The lights make you see other nearby ships and other ships sees you.

Navigational charts A nautical chart is a graphic representation of a sea area and adjacent coastal regions

Navy Ship Ships that are specifically designed for the use of naval forces.

Negligence the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern.

Ocean An ocean is a body of water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere. On Earth, an ocean is one of the major conventional divisions of the World Ocean.

Ocean liner Passenger ship used to travel between point A and point B, crossing seas and oceans.

Officer The officer answers directly to the captain and he/she can have different ranks.

Officer on watch A deck officer assigned with the duties of watch keeping and navigation on a ship's bridge is known as the officer on watch.

Outboard cabin A cabin with a porthole.

Passenger passenger (also abbreviated as pax) is a person who travels on a ship

Pivot To cause to rotate, revolve, or turn.

Plotting Plotting is a method used to track targets on a radar.

Port The left side for a person facing the bow.

Port side The left side and part of the ship if one were to look at the direction that the ship is meant to go forward. Consequently the right side of the ship if was looking backwards. Regardless of the direction of the ship.

Port-to-port When two vessels travelling on opposite direction pass each other on their port side.

Porthole Generally a circular window used on the hull of ships to admit light and air.

Promenade deck Promenade deck A deck found on several types of passenger ships and riverboats

Propeller A mechanical device for propelling a boat or aircraft, consisting of a revolving shaft with two or more broad, angled blades attached to it.

Prow The foremost part of the ship above the water line. Another word for the same thing is the more commonly used word "bow", which also means the foremost part of the ship.

Purser Officer responsible for all administration (including the ship's cargo and passenger manifests) and supply.

Radar A navigation tool used on ships to determine distance, angle and velocity of objects.

Radarscope Converts the radar signals, so that they can be observed visually on it’s screen.

Radio beacon Is a navigational equipment for position determination. Is a mast that’s in a know position.

Radio transmitter A radio transmitter is an electronic device which produces radio waves that someone else can pick up.

Railing A row of posts and the wooden or metal bar on top of them, that are used to hold on to.

Relative bearing The angle between the vessel's forward direction and the location/position of another object.

Relaying Forwarding a message recieved, e.g ship to another ship or ship to a coastal station.

Rescue vesse Is a vessel used for rescue of people at sea.

Rudder A rudder is used to steer a ship.

Rudder machinery The hydraulic equipment for supplying power to turn the rudderstock on the helmsman's command.

Rudiments A fundamental element or skill.

Rules of the road Navigational rules that tells officers how to behave in certain situations. For instance when overtaking or if there's an head-on situation.

Rupture To cause something to explode, break, or tear.

Sagging To sink, drop, drift to leeward.

Sail To travel on water in a ship.

Salvaging The process to try or succeed in saving parts or the entire ship in case of an accident.

Seabed The seabed is the bottom of the ocean, no matter how deep.

Seaman Is a person who works at sea.

Search lights The lights used to search for survivors or objects in the water.

Seaworthiness Seaworthiness is a concept that runs through maritime law in at least four contractual relationships. In a marine insurance voyage policy, the assured warrants that the vessel is seaworthy.

Seaworthiness nil When a ship no longer can be controlled or continue to function at sea.

Second officer The third in command and a watchkeeping officer. Often in charge of navigation.

Settlement An agreement intended to resolve a dispute.

Ship A vessel, especially a large oceangoing that is propelled by engines or sails.

Ship stability The ability of a ship to float in an upright position and, if inclined under action of an external force, to return to this position after the external force has ceased.

Ship yaw The unwanted rotation of the ship from port to starboard and starboard to port.

Shipboard The side of a ship.

Shipmaster Shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner who holds ultimate command and responsibility of a merchant vessel

Shipwreck A shipwreck is the remains of a ship and can be often found on the bottom of the sea. However sometimes they can also be found ashore.

Shipyard Shipyard A place where vessels undergo maintenance.

Shore A shore or a shoreline is the fringe of land at the edge of a large body of water, such as an ocean, sea, or lake.

Shoreman Can also be referred to as stevedore. Loads and unloads ships.

Sister ship A sister ship is a ship of the same class or of virtually identical design to another ship.

Skipper A person who is in command over the vessel.

SOLAS Safety Of Lives At Sea is an international maritime treaty which sets minimum safety standards for merchant ships.

Sounding Measuring the depth of liquid contents in a tank.

Southeast A cardinal direction.

Speed How fast somethings moves.

Sprawling Spred out in an irregular way.

Starboard The right side and part of the ship if one were to look at the direction that the ship is meant to go forward.

Steam whistle A whistle on board a ship is used to produce sound signals to communicate with other ships.

Steamship A ship whose propulsion is generated through steam power.

Stern The aft-most part of a ship.

Steward A person who’s responsible for the well-being of the passenger.

Subordinate Having less power or a lower position than someone else in a company or an organization.

Sun deck A part of a ship, where you can sit and enjoy the sun.

Superstructure The parts of the ship that reach higher than the main deck.

Tanker A ship designed to carry various types of liquid cargo, from oil and gasoline to molasses, water and vegetable oil.

Teletype A type of teleprinter.

The "old man '' Referring to the captain.

Third mate Also known as third officer. This rank also often has the title of security officer.

Third officer A third officer is the fourth-in-command, a licensed member of the deck department. Often tasked with standing watch and assigned safety officer.

Tiller A stick used to steer the boat instead of a wheel, often attached to smaller outboard engines and used on smaller sailing vessels.

Tri mix A blend of Nitrogen, Oxygen and Helium. The diver can stay longer beneath the surface, at greater depths.

Trim When the vessel is leaning forward or aft e.g the draft between the bow and the stern is not equal.

Trim indicator Monitors the vessel's draught for the four sides of the vessel: bow, stern, port and starboard.

Tugboat A strongly built powerful boat used for towing and pushing.

Two-compartment ship A ship capable of remaining afloat when any single watertight compartment is flooded is called a two-compartment ship.

Underwater current A continues and directed movement in the sea created by forces like wind, temperatures and breaking waves.

Underway The state of the vessel. A vessel is not at anchor, or made fast to the shore, or aground.

Unfeasible Inconvenient, impractical.

Unsinkable Meaning that a ship or boat is unable to be sunk.

Veer To change direction or turn about or aside; shift, turn, or change from one course, position, inclination.

Vessel Vessel Vessels or waterborne vessels, are vehicles used in water, including boats, ships, hovercraft and submarines. Watercraft usually have a propulsive capability (whether by sail, oar, paddle or engine) and hence are distinct from a simple device that merely floats, such as a log raft.

Water tank A tank where water is stored.

Watertight compartments All ships are divided into several watertight compartments. This is done for damage control and to increase stability. If one compartment of the ship is to be waterfilled the rest of the ship will remain dry and safe.

Watertight doors pecial types of doors found on the ships which prevent the ingress of water from one compartment to other.

Weighing anchor A term indicating the final preperations for getting underway.

Wheelhouse Bridge, also known as a pilothouse, the location of the ship's wheel of a boat or ship. This is the place from which the ship is being steered.

Winch A device that can wind up, wind out or adjust the tension on a rope. The mechanism is also used in lowering life boats.

Windlass A device for moving heavy objects, e.g bringing home mooring gear.

Wreck ship which has been destroyed and sunk. The destruction of (a ship) by sinking or breaking up.

Yaw If a ship yaws, it moves slightly to the side of its intended direction

Yellow buoy Special mark that tells the seafarer to pay extra attention when navigating the surrounding water.

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