Seamanship Definithons

Question 1

accommodation ladder

Answer 1

the portable steps from the gangway down to the waterline

Question 2

bight

Answer 2

formed by bringing the end of a rope around, near, to, or across it’s own part

Question 3

bitts

Answer 3

a pair of vertical wooden or iron heads on board ship, used for securing mooring or towing lines. similar to dock bollards

Question 4

bollards

Answer 4

an upright, wooden or iron post to which hawsers or morning lines may be secured, equivalent of a vessels mooring bitts used onshore

Question 5

bullwarks

Answer 5

barrier of stiffened plating at the outboard edge of the main or upper deck to prevent or inhibit entry of the sea

Question 6

capstan

Answer 6

steel warping drum rotating on a vertical axis for the handling of mooring lines and optionally anchor cable

Question 7

chock

Answer 7

a heavy wooden or metal fitting secured on a dock with jaws used for the lead or the guide lines or cables

Question 8

cleat

Answer 8

a fitting of wood or metal with horns used for securing lines

Question 9

coil

Answer 9

to lay down lines in circular turns

Question 10

companionway

Answer 10

a set of steps leading from a ships deck down to a cabin or lower deck

Question 11

embark

Answer 11

going on board

Question 12

fairlead

Answer 12

a ring mounted on a boat or ship to guide a rope keeping it clear of obstructions and preventing it from being cut or chafed

Question 13

fake down

Answer 13

to fake line back and forth on deck

Question 14

fantail

Answer 14

after deck over counter. the part of a a rounded stern which extends past the rearmost perpendicular

Question 15

fiddley

Answer 15

raised platform above the engine room

Question 16

forecastle

Answer 16

raised and enclosed forward superstructure section of the hull. a compartment where the crew lives

Question 17

fore-deck

Answer 17

foremost section of exposed main deck

Question 18

gangway

Answer 18

opening you walk through to get on the accommodation ladder

Question 19

hawser

Answer 19

a large heavy rope used for towing or mooring

Question 20

heaving line

Answer 20

a small line thrown to an approaching vessel or a dock as a messenger

Question 21

kink

Answer 21

a twist in a rope

Question 22

ladderway

Answer 22

vertical passage way the holds a ladder

Question 23

lazzarette

Answer 23

a low headroom space below decks used for provisions or spare parts or miscellaneous storage. on smaller vessels may contain the steering gear

Question 24

line

Answer 24

a general term for a light rope

Question 25

messenger line

Answer 25

a light line used for hauling over a heavier hawser, rope or cable

Question 26

mooring

Answer 26

securing to a dock or to a buoy, or anchoring with two anchors

Question 27

mooring line

Answer 27

ropes used for securing a vessel to shore bollards

Question 28

pad eyes

Answer 28

a metal eye permantly secured to a deck or bulkhead

Question 29

painter

Answer 29

the contiguous bellowing in and bellowing out nature of the ships hull plating due to variable water pressure distribution caused as a result of waves

Question 30

part

Answer 30

to break

Question 31

pay out

Answer 31

to slack out a line made fast on board

Question 32

piolts ladder

Answer 32

ladder used for piolt to get on board with

Question 33

quarter deck

Answer 33

full width raised hull section and deck extending from the aft shoulder to the stern. the part of a ships upper deck near the stern traditionally reserved for officers

Question 34

safe working load

Answer 34

certified load limit applied to lifting appliances and gear

Question 35

secure

Answer 35

to make fast, safe, the completion of a drill or exercise on board ship

Question 36

seize

Answer 36

to bind with small rope

Question 37

slack

Answer 37

opposite of taut

Question 38

slip

Answer 38

to let go by unshackling as a cable

Question 39

splice

Answer 39

the joining of two ends of a rope or ropes by so intertwining the strands as but slightly to increase the diameter of the rope

Question 40

standing part

Answer 40

that part of a line or fall which is secured

Question 41

stopper

Answer 41

a short length of rope secured at one end and used in securing or checking a running rope

Question 42

superstructure

Answer 42

general term for sections of a vessel constructed on and above the upper or main decks or a vessel

Question 43

surge

Answer 43

to ease a line to prevent it from parting or pulling meanwhile holding the strain

Question 44

transom

Answer 44

the fair surface forming the stern of a vessel

Question 45

weather deck

Answer 45

uppermost hull deck exposed to the weather at all times

Question 46

whipping

Answer 46

a method of preventing the ends of a line from unlaying or fraying by turns of small stuff, stout twine or seizing wire with the ends tucked

Question 47

winch

Answer 47

geared rotary machine used for handling of lines wires etc

Question 48

windless

Answer 48

winch designed for the rising and lowering of an anchor

Question 49

bullrail

Answer 49

heavy rail on the dock which can have line attached to it

Question 50

bitter end

Answer 50

the last part of a rope or last link in an anchor chain