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bridge
An elevated platform built above the upper deck of a powered vessel, from which a ship is normally navigated and from where all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain or officer ...
Bulk Cargoes
The term “bulk cargo” indicates unpackaged cargo that can be poured, tipped, or pumped into the holds or tanks of a ship, although in the nineteenth century the term was ...
Bulk Carrier Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History
The bulk carrier was designed to transport free-flowing liquid, gaseous, or dry cargo. Because of the low value of the
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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)
a generic term for a vessel which carries large quantities of any material in bulk, but is now generally used to describe a large merchant vessel developed during the 1950s to transport ...
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Derbyshire
A 169,000-tonne bulk carrier, which sank off the coast of Okinawa in September 1980, the largest British ship ever to be lost at sea. Nearly 282 metres (925 ft) long and 44.2 metres (144 ft) wide, ...
diesel oil
Petroleum fuel used in heavy traction engines for trucks and buses, often incompletely combusted and a source of emission products that are an important component of urban smog.
dynaship
A project launched during the 1970s in Germany to examine the possibility of using wind as the main motive power for merchant vessels. The proposition was to reintroduce square-rigged ships of up to ...
environmental issues
Mankind has continually abused the sea, regarding it as an inexhaustible source of food and minerals, and a dumping ground for rubbish. Now it is more widely accepted that the oceans are finite, and ...
flag of convenience
The national flag of a state flown by a ship that is registered in that state but is owned by a national of another state. A state whose law allows this practice can grant, in return for financial ...
freight
1. The transport of goods by sea (sea freight) or air (air freight).2. The goods so transported.3. The cost of shipping goods for a particular voyage by sea or by air. Freight is charged on the basis ...
Great Lakes
The five connected lakes along the border of the USA and Canada which make up the world's largest body of freshwater. They are Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and Lake Huron.
hold
A large compartment below decks in a ship mainly for the stowage of cargo but also, in the days of sail, for stowing provisions for a voyage, and often the ship's gear. Modern dredgers discharge into ...
International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
The official title, commonly shortened to Colregs, of the internationally agreed rules by which ships at sea keep clear of each other. The first international conference to consider such rules was ...
Lloyd's Register
A society formed (as Lloyd's Register of Shipping) in Lloyd's coffee house, London, in 1760 to inspect and classify all ocean-going vessels in excess of 100 tons. Ships are still periodically ...
master
Originally a rank in the Royal Navy during the days of sail as well as a rank in the merchant marine. The naval master was a specialist navigator and ship handler whose function was to manoeuvre his ...
ocean liners
May be defined as powered passenger-carrying vessels running a regular scheduled service across oceanic routes. Before the introduction of the jet passenger plane, it was the shipping lines, running ...
red tide
A sudden often toxic proliferation of marine phytoplankton, notably dinomastigotes, that colours the sea red, brown, or yellowish due to the high concentration of the organisms' photosynthetic ...
shifting boards
Longitudinal wooden bulkheads temporarily erected in the holds of ships. They were used in the days before the modern bulk carrier to prevent bulk cargo, such as coal, grain, etc., from shifting in ...
Shipping Companies
This entry contains eight subentries: An Overview, Chinese River Trades, Coastwise Cargo, European River Trades, Great Lakes, Ocean Cargo, Ocean Passenger, Sea PassengerThe organizational structure ...
tanker
A ship designed to carry liquids in bulk in large storage tanks. Most carry oil but some carry wine, sugar products, and liquified gases.
