List of nautical technical terms (N to Z)
This is a list of special nautical terms (in addition to sociolects , colloquial expressions) along with explanations that are used on board seagoing and inland vessels (see also portal: Shipping ; it contains a list of articles on the subject of shipping ).
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Keyword : November [ noʊˈvɛmbə˞ ]
- bit by bit
- A phrase for a job that you do gradually
- Boat
- small dinghy on barges
- trailing lake
- Movement of the waves in the direction of travel of the ship
- Night jump
- Navigation on clear nights: You orientate yourself on the North Star and have to be in sight of landmarks or mountains of the coast to be approached the following morning
- nadir
- Base, opposite to the zenith
- Name prefixes
- are often used in ships and warships used
- Nantucket sleigh ride
- when a harpooned whale dragged the light whaling boat behind it
- Nauke
- the “girl for everything” or the man on board who has the least to report and who does the dirtiest and most dangerous work
- wet ground
- A layer of water in the sea that, due to differences in temperature and salinity, has a higher density than the layer above. This ensures increased sound wave reflection at the interface between the two layers, so that the discovery of a submarine below the interface is made more difficult by watercraft above. A submarine can also lie on a wet bottom with very slight downforce , such as on a firm ocean floor.
- nautical triangle
- the triangle between the zenith, the celestial north pole and a star; an important aid in spherical astronomy for determining the current position of the star
- navigation
- “Steering skills” at sea ( nautical science ), on land and in the air
- NCS
- Abbreviation for Network Coordination Station; activates land earth radio stations (LES) and ship earth radio stations (MES for mobile earth station)
- Fog bell
- the bell with which an anchored or stuck ship must make itself felt in the fog
- Fog gong
- An acoustic signal in fog
- Foghorn
- Signal horn for generating sound signals ( fog signals )
- Neptune
- Roman god of the seas, comes on board at the equator baptism
- Netzbrook
- Charge network
- Network inspector
- a corpse in a trawl
- Net tab
- small net buoy with flag or light
- Net capstan
- Reepspill with a prime mover attached to haul in the net
- nine-tailed cat
- Ship whip
- NfS
- Abbreviation for " Messages for Seafarers "
- boarding down
- also abentern , climb down from a mast
- Decline
- steep, narrow stairs to the rooms below deck in ships
- Vang
- 1. a pulley system that pulls the tree downwards
2. rope for hauling down (hauling in) the triangular jib and staysail - Rivet counter
- precise ship's officer
- Niña
- (Spanish for girls ) Name of one of the three ships with which Columbus wanted to discover the way to India
- Nipptide
- the shallower tide at the time of the half moon , i.e. relatively low high tides and relatively high low tides
- mermaid
- Mermaid, female water spirit
- NN
- Sea level , outdated height reference system of the German national survey, replaced by sea level . The nautical chart zero is more relevant for seafarers .
- Nock
- 1. End of spars (tree wing, rahnock)
2. Outside area of the bridge on port and starboard (bridge wing ) - Northern lights
- 1. light phenomena caused by the solar wind in northern zones, the aurora
2. jokingly for residents of northern Germany - North Sea garage
- the Bremen-class frigates of the German Navy
- Normann
- Iron bar stuck across the bollard head
- Northwester
- 1. Northwest wind
2. Oilskin consisting of oil trousers, oil jacket and south wester (cap) - Distress signal
- Emergency calls in the form of acoustic signals or light signals
- Nüsterplünn
- Handkerchief
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- OS
- ordinary seaman . The OS corresponds internationally to the German deckhand or light seaman; in contrast to AB OS, the names of the seamen are written in the model roll .
- Top fire
- high-altitude lighthouse, which - brought into a vertical bearing together with the lower light - marks the position of a fairway
- Skylight
- an opening porthole or window on deck superstructures above the cabin or the engine room
- OBO carrier
- ore bulk oil carrier: multi-purpose vessel, the alternate mass bulk material (eg. corn , coal , ores , etc.) or oil can transport
- Fruit
- Abbreviation for Obstruction, Obstacle in nautical charts : obstacle, handicap, obstruction, blocking
- Occ
- Abbreviation for occulting, interrupted beacon , in nautical charts
- OCC
- Abbreviation for Operation Control Center
- Ox eye
- a piece of blue sky , often visible in the center of a tropical storm
- Odde
- a slender headland protruding into the sea
- Octant
- Angle measuring instrument; the base frame has the shape of an eighth-part of a circle, the forerunner of the sextant
- oil cake
- Residues that are left over from the potion are used as fodder
- Oil diary
- Evidence of the treatment and the whereabouts of oil residues
- Oilskin , also Ostfriesennerz or Friesennerz
- waterproof outerwear for seafarers
- Onager
- one-armed slingshot machine on ancient Roman warships for stone balls or boulders
- Oring chain
- Chain from the O-ring on the crown of a stick anchor
- Orlog
- war
- Orlog ship
- Warship
- Oscar
- Name of a buoyant dummy used for man-overboard maneuvers. In the flag alphabet, the flag O means "man overboard".
- osen, ötzen, also trigger
- the pumping of a boat with the Ösfass
- Ösfass
- small shovel-like vessel for pumping small amounts of water
- East - / North Sea - Rocker
- Speedboat driver of the German Navy
- Ostfriesennerz
- Sailing clothing (rain protection clothing), waterproof jacket from the 1970s / 80s made of rayon / PVC with a hood , mostly in yellow
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Keyword: Papa [ ˈpɑːpə ]
- parcel
- 1. the mooring of several ships alongside each other
2. items of clothing - Pack ice
- the most common type of sea ice , consists of ice floes pushed together
- paddle
- are used to move a canoe using muscle power
- Paddle box
- Mock name for a paddle steamer
- Padrão
- Portuguese colonial column, was carried on board their ships by Portuguese explorers. At prominent, newly discovered points such as capes or estuaries, the captains had names and dates carved into the stone under the Christ cross and the coat of arms of Portugal
- Pagaie
- short paddle
- palaver
- Meeting, never ending talk
- Pallen
- Supports in shipbuilding
- Bowline
- nautical knot
- Pan-Pan
- Urgency message in radio communications from ships, aircraft or other vehicles (as opposed to an emergency message )
- Panama Gorge
- a special hawse for safe lock during the passage of the Panama Canal
- Panic angle
- The heel angle of smaller passenger ships , which is caused by the passengers themselves by confluence on one side of the ship, is beginning to cause unrest among the passengers. The panic angle is around 12 °.
- Pantry
- 1. On-board kitchen of a yacht
2. Larder or sideboard on ships - Armor plates
- 1. Crumble cake, which was mostly baked on Sunday and Thursday ( Sailor Sunday )
2. At the Navy also fried fish - Parrot mast
- small mizzen mast on lightships
- Parrot stick
- Outrigger for fastening the mizzen sail
- Poplar Avenue
- fairway delimited by buoys or pricks
- Sorry
- Angled aft rope to support the masts
- part
- Ownership of a merchant or fishing vessel
- Partner shipping company
- Company form under German maritime trade law
- Particular
- Carrier with his own barge on inland waterways
- Passat
- Evenly blowing winds north (north-east trade wind) and south (south-east trade wind) of the equator , caused by air pressure differences and the Coriolis force
- Patch
- a patch attached to an old sail
- Patent neck
- if the stern goes through the wind in an aft wind due to careless steering or heavy seas, the boom suddenly hits the other side of the ship. Deadly danger for yachtsmen from head injuries or going overboard; Avoidance through bull stander .
- baboon
- Mock name for the sailor who keeps watch when the ship is at anchor
- Observation deck
- uppermost deck or part of the deck on which the magnetic compass is located
- Dipstick
- Dipstick made of square metal on a long leash for recording tank contents. In order to also be able to pass slight bends in the sounding tube, the sounding stick consists of short links that are connected to one another with joints.
- Tarpaulin
- waterproof tarpaulin
- Petschel
- on sailing boats the name for a paddle (verb: paddle)
- Pole mast protector
- Sailing schooner without stanchions
- Pile test
- Measurement of the output power of a machine when it is fastened (tensile load measurement)
- Pancake ice cream
- thin slices of ice on the water
- Peacock tail
- Water thrown up by very fast running propellers with water spray
- Whistles and fuses!
- Order to end leisure time on board naval ships
- Gate strips
- (Gate tape) painted black and white tape on old sailing ships, better known as Nelson painting
- Awl
- a strongly curved sewing needle
- Pidgin-English
- broken English mixed with Chinese and Malay words, possibly already a Creole language
- Prick
- fore (fore peak) and aft (aft peak) space of a ship (see cable category); always a tank for seagoing vessels
- Beeper
- People on board (of English. People )
- Pirk
- Fishing hook for cod fishing
- pinnace
- small boat type up to approx. 15 m in length
- tiller
- Steering rod, at the rear end of which the rudder is attached. The rule for smaller boats; Alternative: steering wheel.
- pirate
- 1. Pirate (from Greek peirates = adventurer)
2. Name of a national sailing boat class - plank
- strong board (plank or plank)
- Plank walk
- Planks one layer
- Planking
- Going over the plank, pirate execution method
- flat before the wind
- a ship sails when it has the wind straight from behind
- Plattgatter
- Boat or ship with a flat stern, in contrast to pointed or round gates
- Flat iron ship
- a Thames coal ship type
- Flat foot
- During the sailing ship time, the watch is from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. divided into 1st flat foot from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., 2nd flat foot from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. These two short watches were switched on every four hours in order to avoid the same seafarers always having the same watch times.
- Cockpit
- (also known colloquially as the cockpit) Part of the deck of a sport boat with an open steering position and benches
- plating
- look
- Plum pudding
- Whaler term for the tongue slime of whales
- Planing
- the seaman calls his sails, but also his stuff, his clothes
- Plünnen-Peters
- Nickname for the Hamburg shipping company H. Peters, which was known for ancient and very simple ships (Plünnen = rags)
- Pod drive
- ( pod; English = gondola), also called Schottel drive (after the company that developed it), is a modern form of propulsion for ships . The gondolas, which can be rotated together with the propellers, are attached to the ship's hull and thus allow good maneuverability.
- pofen
- sleep
- bollard
- short stake on the pier made of metal or wood for mooring a ship
- Bollard monkey
- Deck crew seaman (joking, pejorative)
- Polliwog
- 1. tadpole
2. someone who has not yet crossed the equator - Pomuchel
- Name for the cod
- pound
- painting
- pony
- small otter board in front of the basic roller rope
- Poop
- aft deck structure
- Portal gallows
- gallows reaching across the entire stern on stern trawlers
- Potacken
- Potatoes
- Potack turning
- Peel potatoes
- Pot
- Mock name for a ship
- Prahm
- small ship without its own drive, used to transport goods, as a ferry or for work with construction machinery
- Price shot
- Blind shot as a request to foreign ships, after a five-minute period the fire was fired sharply
- Preventer
- 1. Strong wire leading down from the tailgate jib to a cleat on deck to fix the tailgate in one position. Is set anew with each rigging. Must absorb the entire tensile forces of the suspended load during loading and unloading.
2. English name for the bull stander - Quid
- a piece of chewing tobacco
- Prism bag
- binoculars
- Promenade deck guest
- is separated from the deck to keep the decks reserved for passengers in order on passenger ships
- propeller
- Propeller
- Puch
- Bed / bunk
- Bobble hat
- Headgear
- Pudding Rudolf
- Nickname for the shipping company RAO = Rudolf August Oetker in Hamburg
- Pull
- a single, mostly jerky pull on a belt
- pull
- rowing
- purr, purr
- general: notify; the waking up and "getting on-legs" of a sleeper when the guard changes
- Pütting, püttingeisen
- a vertical iron on the outer skin of the ship to fix the shrouds
- Pütz
- also Schlagpütz or Pütze - bucket for scooping water out of (draining) or in (cleaning or extinguishing) a ship
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- Quant
- Pole with a plate at the bottom to prevent it from sinking into the mud
- quarantine
- ( Ital. quarantina di giorni "forty days") a temporary isolation to prevent the spread of infectious diseases
- Quarterblock
- Geitau and Schotblock under the Rah on each side of Raks
- Quarter deck
- Aft deck; in the case of sailing ships, the part of the upper deck behind the main mast
- Quarter decker
- Mocking name for an officer who looks more at the external form than at the service
- Quarter deck railing
- Monkey railing, stern railing, upper end of the ship's railing, the railing
- Quartermaster
- Able seaman who only steers; is considered a non-commissioned officer
- Quarter
- accommodation
- Chatterbox
- certain Schiff ship frequencies at short wavelength , the internal exchange of information between the ship stations in the commercial shipping served
- Tassel
- wide brush with a dense, soft layer of bristles, which is suitable for applying paint over large areas
- Quay
- engl. Quay
- Queenie
- square staysail of a schooner yacht
- abeam
- to the side, at right angles (8 lines) to the direction of travel
- Cross drain
- a launch that takes place transversely
- Cross runner
- Vehicle that crosses its own course in a sideways direction
- ricochet
- Running out of the rudder in aft wind and swell, so that there is a risk of capsizing or hammering
- Squeeze chest ( squeeze box)
- Boatman's piano
- Quiddje
- missingsch for every stranger on the coast, especially if he speaks a different dialect ("newcomer")
- Quinquereme
- Pentere, "five-rowers"; Ancient ship with five oars on one oar or one above the other
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- RS
- Rescue center (name in nautical charts )
- Ra-BK
- Radar word beacon in nautical charts
- Rack
- in the case of Zeesboots, a bow-shaped crooked wood or a rope on which wooden balls are threaded (to prevent chafing) to set the yard or gaff on the mast
- Radar reflector
- Device for increasing the visibility of a ship using radar equipment from other ships
- Wheel effect
- Lateral displacement of a ship due to the lateral forces of the propeller
- Rah
- (also Raa or Rahe) Part of the rigging of a sailing ship
- Square sail
- mostly rectangular or trapezoidal sail , which is driven under a yard
- rak
- to get stuck
- Ramk
- Designation of automatically transmitting radar beacons on nautical charts
- Randgeer
- top plank of a boat
- rank
- A ship is lean when it rolls very hard in the sea due to its too high center of gravity and lingers in the end positions for a long time. Risk of capsizing. Opposite: stiff.
- Rapert
- in the sailing ship time term for the carriage of gun
- Rappeltuch
- Also rapper cloth, sacky jute fabric as a base or covering for splices
- RAS
- Replenishment at Sea - Supply in Lake
- Rat plate , rat sheet
- Often round metal or wooden discs placed outboard on the mooring lines to prevent rats and mice from coming on board
- rough
- 1. rude, rude
2. rough weather - Spaces
- the wind shifts at constant exchange aft (see also Schralen and downwind )
- So it is right!
- Command from the watchman to the helmsman that the current course is correct
- Right ahead
- Visual message exactly in the direction of travel ("Green buoy right ahead!")
- Ree!
- Command during maneuver of turning
- Roadstead
- Anchorage outside the port
- Reeperbahn , Reiferbahn
- 1st place of work of the rope maker
2nd famous street in Hamburg, former rope factory - Reepschläger
- traditional craftsmanship in rope manufacture
- Rees to port
- Description for the exchange of artfully woven stories (seaman's thread)
- reesen
- talk / tell stories; also: pulling or rowing in competition
- reefing
- Reduction of the sail area (with increasing wind), in contrast to: reaching out or throwing out a reef to enlarge the reefed sail
- regatta
- Race, race with vehicles on the water
- Grater
- wooden fender , fixed or floating on quay walls
- Ship in!
- Command to thoroughly clean a ship
- Trip trip
- Wake-up call on board naval ships
- ride, ride at anchor
- ride a storm at anchor
- Riding weight
- heavy weight that is lowered on the anchor line or chain to achieve horizontal pull on the anchor
- Railing
- sometimes incorrectly written "Reeling"; in shipping, a railing around an exposed deck or around deck openings
- Rescue beacon
- Refuge near the coast or technical device for making a radio emergency call
- Lifeboat
- Boat to evacuate the ship
- Life raft
- self-inflating, closed liferaft
- Life jacket
- personal float, which is worn over the jacket and is intended to prevent drowning, today often provided with an automatic inflation device; the term “life jacket” is out of date and today only describes a swimming aid
- Directional beacon
- fixed guide beam
- shouting
- cut out only the belly flaps of the fish
- belt
- (Latin remus ) what landlubbers call “oars”: for moving rowing boats; the rudder on a ship is used to change direction
- Strap lash
- Type of rowing in which the oar blade is rotated horizontally
- Rig
- Rigging of a sailing ship
- RINA
- Registro Italiano Navale ; Italian classification society based in Rome
- Seal catchers
- coll. for a bottom net fisherman
- Robinson Island
- Juan Fernandez Island off the Chilean coast
- Rockall
- a lonely, 21 m high granite rock in the eastern North Atlantic at 57 ° 36 'N 13 ° 42' W, west of the Hebrides (to Great Britain), dangerous for shipping
- roll
- Back and forth movements of the ship about the longitudinal axis, not to be confused with heeling
- Roll reversal
- a turn in which additional speed is gained by heeling and straightening the dinghy.
- Round blank
- on warships the evening inspection of the first officer and the sergeant
- Roof
- older name for a larger deckhouse on sailing ships
- Roring
- Ring at the end of an anchor shaft
- Ross barrier
- the ice shelf area in the Antarctic consisting of glacier ice and icy snow south of the Ross Sea with rim heights of up to 50 m
- Horse widths
- calm zone in the Atlantic between 23 ° and 30 ° north and south latitude
- Rotsee
- the red sea
- red
- von Rottenklausel ; if ships are found not to be seaworthy after inspection, the insurer is not obliged to do so; coll .: everything is red
- Rotterdam rules
- international agreement in maritime trade law from 2009 (see Hague Rules )
- routine
- the roster on board
- Over robber
- Overworker; destitute passengers or emigrants who earned the passage by helping out during the crossing
- Rudder
- 1. What landlubbers call "rudder", ie tiller or steering wheel
2. Steering rudder at the rear end of the fuselage - Helmsman
- the seaman who keeps watch at the helm; he steers the course given to him by the watchman
- hull
- that part of a boat or ship that gives it buoyancy
- Torso speed
- is a theoretical value for the maximum possible speed of a ship during displacement travel
- Round aft!
- Command during the jib maneuver
- Arm
- strong plank on the outer skin of the ship to which the ironworks are attached
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- SS
- Abbreviation for training ship, in English for steamship = steam ship, steamer
- Bag rats
- Pubic lice
- Saildrive
- compact propulsion system for sport ships
- Spreader
- Strut on the mast that holds the shrouds outwards. As a result, the shrouds have a more favorable angle of attack on the mast and can keep it more vertical. The most dangerous section when going up and down on square sailors.
- Spreading cushions
- Softwood underlay on the spreader to prevent the shrouds from chafing
- Salt fishing
- Fishing, in which except for the fish at sea and in salt are transported
- Hodgepodge
- 1. Confusion
2. If both ship's lines are guilty of a collision; the damage is shared - Saturday night bottle
- Allocation of rum to the night watch on English whalers on Saturdays
- Samum
- hot wind in saudi arabia
- Santa Ana
- Dust-carrying wind on the Pacific coast of the USA
- Sawyer
- floating tree trunk moving up and down in the current, danger to shipping
- SBM
- On board the usual short form for ship operator
- Shepherd meal
- in Bremen (since 1545); old Hanseatic custom of the Bremen shipowners and captains in winter time
- Shackle
- 1.U-shaped bracket that can be locked with a screw or socket bolt to connect two parts
2. Length, especially for anchor chains, see also shackles (unit of measure) - Shackle key
- Device made of steel or iron for opening a shackle
- scarf
- close watertight
- shame
- wear out from friction, chafing of cordage
- Schandeck
- Wooden planks covering the outer ends of the frames on wooden ship decks, they form the upper end of the ship's hull
- shanghai
- the forcible hiring of a seaman for service on a ship against his will
- Schanz
- the aft deck on warships (on sailing ships with cabin, steering position and mizzen mast), see deck (shipbuilding)
- Bulwark
- an increase beyond the deck
- Bulwark roll
- a roll consisting of slats with gaps on the bulwark of herring loggers for hauling the nets on board
- Shiver people
- Dock workers for loading and unloading cargo ships
- Checkbook, checkbook
- Control book for counting and comparing shipments
- Scheg
- Part of the bow of historical sailing (war) ships; carries the figurehead
- Disc type
- Box-shaped wooden frame or recess in a wooden block to accommodate one or two pulleys
- sheikh
- Boatswain, especially in the Navy
- Turning point
- a trick in regatta sailing : prepare to tack, shoot into the wind and then fall back on the old course
- Haddock patent
- Mockery of the marine radio special certificate that is acquired with a shortened course and was actually created for fishing
- Thigh board
- Leg support for the harpooner in the whaling boat
- Shear rate
- the next slab corridor above the water
- Shear stick
- 1. Removable strong transverse steel girders in the hatch shaft
2. In shipbuilding : L-shaped wooden slats that are attached to the iron deck in the living area and are screwed to the wooden intermediate bulkheads 3. Cross
beams, see also Scherbaum - Schiemann
- sailor
- Schiemanns yarn
- Small rope , used to wrap ( clover ) the splice points of wire rope and standing goods
- Shoots
- 1. a shoal; a ship is said to be “in trouble” or “ran into trouble”
2. the interjection “ shit! " - Boat
- 1. Small ship
2. Käppi , a uniform cap that can be folded flat without a peak, headgear for the Bundeswehr - Skipper
- Guide of a river boat ( barge )
- Ship graveyard
- Place where many ships lie on the seabed
- Ship dealer
- the common but not entirely correct expression for ship chandlers
- Ship fort
- a structure originally designed as a fortification on a historical sailing (war) ship
- Ship size
- different technical data such as mass and space specifications, displacement, load capacity, draft, length and speed of a ship
- Ship reporting service
- There information is collected about ship movements in the entire area of the German Bight, on the Elbe and Weser , in the Kiel Canal and in numerous ports along the northern European sea and waterways including Rotterdam around the clock
- Noon
- Time of the observed highest point of the sun
- Ship role
- 1. Duty roster, watch assignment and responsibilities of each member of the crew of a ship, both at sea, at anchor and in port
2. Guideline for behavior in emergencies at sea and for manning the lifeboats (the manning of the boats with knowledgeable people specifically designated for this specific task Seafarers) - Propeller
- Slang term for a ship's propeller
- Ship christening
- solemn act before the launching of ships
- Ship's biscuits
- also (Low German) protect (from "biscuit"), sailor cake : a food that is very unpopular with seafarers, similar to today's hard biscuit
- Writings
- Sailing maneuvers , in which on a downwind course is changed the sailing side, without changing the course
- Butcher
- (from sails) - Cutting off the sails in an emergency, especially on old tall ships: If the sails could no longer be hauled in when the storm was too strong, they were instead cut from the lines and thus abandoned
- Slag button
- Morse radio: semi-automatic (mechanical) Morse key
- Schlengel
- simple, low pontoon for mooring and mooring for boats in tidal waters
- Tow bag
- (Sea anchor) - a sea anchor or water stopper for sailing ships, either a log with a weighted sail attached to it or a sack similar to a cornucopia
- Tow hawser
- the hawser (heavy rope) used to tow a vehicle
- Mud slide
- actually a sled gliding over the mud ( Kreier ), in a figurative sense the term for flat-bottomed ships in mud flats, depending on the size of the ships, meant derogatory to offensive
- Schlicktown
- Mock name for Wilhelmshaven , originally Schlicktau based on Tsingtau (today's Qingdao ) because the expeditionary corps to fight the Boxer Rebellion in China left Wilhelmshaven in July 1900
- streak
- the anchor is pulled over the ground
- Rolling keel
- Laterally attached additional keels of a ship to dampen the heel
- swerve
- Movement of the ship around all three axes, combination of roll , yaw and pitch
- Schmadding
- Senior NCO in the nautical department on naval ships, "Seemänniche No. 1", synonymous with deck master
- smelter
- Cabin boy in the first year of apprenticeship
- butterfly
- Sail guidance flat in front of the wind, with the fore and mainsail on different bows
- Schnürboden
- Large wooden floor at a shipyard on which frames , panels, etc. are drawn on a 1: 1 scale
- Chocolate side
- Side of a ship with which you can easily create the wheel effect
- Chocolate storm
- Northwest Storm West India
- sheet
- A rope that is used to set the sail as required by the direction of the wind
- Clew
- the corner of a sail where the sheet is attached
- Schotstek
- a knot to connect two ropes of different strength
- Bulkhead
- Transverse and longitudinal walls for dividing and stiffening the hull; also name for door
- Shells
- Wind turns forwards with constant course (see also Raumen )
- scrape
- scraping paint, firnica, and tar from planks and other surfaces
- screw
- propeller
- Screw water
- water thrown up by the propeller
- Schricktau
- to slow down or inhibit the movement of a ship when it is loosened in port
- Shot chisel
- Sharp chisel with a wide cut surface on an alder wood handle, is used to break through the wires when splicing
- Push convoy
- coupled push barge and push boat
- Swallow's nest
- balcony-like expansion, z. B. for guns or depth charges , or a small bulge for stowing things
- Gooseneck
- Flat, bent ventilation pipe of double bottom tanks and the like ending on deck, mostly with flap
- Tail wave
- the rearmost piece of the shaft line on which the propeller sits
- Black goods ship
- Tankers for dirty oils such as crude oil, boiler oil etc.
- Black gear
- Name for customs officers who come on board to search a ship for contraband etc.
- black frost
- engl. black frost: fast-growing, unstoppable icing of a ship due to freezing fog or sea overflowing in extremely cold weather
- Pork loin
- Deck reinforcement for the anchor taken on deck
- sword
- Amidships in the sword box movable plate in sailing dinghies or fishing boats, plug-in swords for vertical movement, rotary swords for vertical pivoting around a pivot point, are used to reduce the drift of a ship without a keel
- swear
- Drift of anchored ships
- Schwoienraum
- the space occupied by the drifting anchor line
- see-you-in- Liverpool
- a traditional greeting from pilots when disembarking from an outgoing ship
- Selaton
- a south wind of the Philippines
- fur seal
- an old sailor
- Sea legs
- Ability to walk on deck despite rolling and stamping
- Nautical book
- is an ID and serves to identify the owner and to prove his employment on board. German seafaring books are, insofar as they are issued to Germans, passport substitute papers
- Maritime patent
- is the national certificate (seafaring patent) for the nautical or technical ship's officer that he ships of a certain size or power in a specific trading area as a watch officer , as chief engineer or captain must lead
- Swell
- generally refers to a surface appearance of the oceans and seas in the form of waves
- seaport
- is a port that can be called by seagoing vessels
- Sea cock
- Flood valve, shut-off valve for water pipes that end at the hull
- Maritime trade
- denotes the commercial exchange of goods with merchant ships across the sea
- Nautical chart
- is a map that shows the sea routes and coasts , shallows , sea marks , fairways etc. of a certain sea area (e.g. North Sea) for shipping
- Sea chest
- Small, box-like space in the underwater hull, from which the seawater pipes (ballast, cooling, fire-fighting and flushing water) lead into the ship's interior
- Sea chest
- Suitcases for sailors
- Sea crow
- cormorant
- Seasickness
- and motion sickness, motion sickness or motion sickness refers to various symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness , headache , nausea and vomiting that occur when moving around in a vehicle; Seasickness is certainly the best known form of motion sickness
- soul Reaper
- no longer fully seaworthy watercraft that "sells" the "souls" of passengers and crew members.
- Seamanship
- refers to the skills and practices, the practical handling of a ship belonging
- Sailor's yarn
- heavily embellished stories or falsehoods
- Seaman's home
- like a youth hostel , here the seaman can spend his time on land until the next time he is hired
- Nautical knot
- Knots traditionally used in shipping, e.g. B. Loom linen ; these knots hold securely, can be easily tied and usually quickly undone without great effort
- Sailor Sunday
- Thursday, on which there is traditionally a very good meal
- Sailor's chair
- a seat board (now usually trousers) to pull a man outboard for work on the ship's side or to pull him up into the rigging
- nautical mile
- or nautical mile is in the shipbuilding and aviation in use of length and corresponds to 1.85201 km
- Distress
- occurs when a watercraft , its crew and, if applicable, passengers are in a situation that threatens the sinking of the vehicle or there is a serious, immediate and unavoidable danger to the health or life of the people that appears unavoidable without outside help
- Sea pie
- an American seaman's dish made from fish, meat and vegetables in layers
- Duffel bag
- a large sack made of coarse canvas for transporting and storing the drivers' clothes and personal effects
- Sea tug
- very thick, long steel cables for towing wrecked ships. Was previously carried on many freighters for safety reasons
- Sea trip
- the hours, days, or weeks that a ship has been at sea in a row
- Sea behavior
- Behavior of the ship at sea
- Sea litter
- 1. Throwing overboard
2. Washing cargo overboard in heavy seas - Sailing instruction
- 1. The recommendations given in the nautical manual for approaching an entrance or passage
. B. in a new training phase - Sailing glove
- Auxiliary tool for sewing sail
- Sail bunk
- Storage space on board a ship for the sails
- Sail cut
- Cutting the sail
- Sailing trip
- (only: Törn ) is the name for a range, a race or also for a trip , with a sailing boat is put back
- self-draining cockpit
- a sailing yacht, the bottom of which is above the swimming water line and from which the overflowing water runs off by itself
- sextant
- (Mirror sextant, also sixtant ) is an optical measuring instrument that can be used to determine the angle between the viewing directions to objects that are relatively far away or to the horizon . It is mainly used to measure the height of stars for astronomical navigation at sea in order to determine the respective ship's location with the help of tables.
- shanty
- the sailor's song, which is sung especially when operating the capstan
- Shave and a haircut
- Haircutting and shaving - A general term used in shipping for routine overhauls when there is no real damage
- Shiptainer
- ship's own container handling device
- Signal book
- is used for communication at sea. It defines the meaning of letter abbreviations for safety and navigation purposes
- Simm
- Edging line of a fishing net
- Skatschmann
- Shame felt protection made of leather or wood on men or shrouds
- Slave coast
- the coast of Togo
- skiff
- the one in rowing
- Skipper
- Skipper of a yacht
- Skipjack
- Knickspantenboot with multiple kinked frames
- scurvy
- (sometimes referred to as Möller-Barlow disease or Möller-Barlow syndrome ) is a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) ( avitaminosis )
- Skylight
- Word often used by sailors for the skylight
- Slipway
- a ramp for the watering ( slipping ) of boats and ships
- Slip
- a knot with a loop for quick loosening
- slipping
- (from Low German to slip, to slide , from Middle Low German to slippen = slide , slip or let go ; cf. English to slip = to slip , slide ) launch a small boat into the water with the help of a slip wagon
- Sloop
- (also: Schlup , Danish: slup , English: sloop , Dutch: sloep ) is a sailing boat with a mast, a mainsail and a headsail
- Smart & Kleedern
- "Changing" (protecting) ropes or wire ropes
- Smeerreep
- Line on the leech for reefing the main sail of a sloop
- Smoketime
- 15-minute coffee break after breakfast and before lunch
- Smut or Smutje
- Ship's cook
- snatching
- Tearing away the tow rope
- Solano
- East wind on the east coast of Spain
- SOLAS
- International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea ( International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea ) is a UN convention on ship safety
- sonar
- is a technique for echolocation (active sonar) or localization (passive sonar) of objects by means of acoustic signals; the word is an English acronym of Sun and n avigation a nd r was concerned, which means as much as navigation and distance measurement by underwater sound . With sonar, objects can be located and measured underwater. One uses the fact that sound travels four times faster under water than in the air
- Sunburners
- Downlights attached to a mast arm for deck lighting during loading and unloading
- Sun shot
- Unintentional luffing of a sailing ship due to excessive heeling . Actually, the bow then points in the direction of the wind, not in the direction of the sun.
- Lifeline
- 1. Line ("rope") to keep the buoy free from the hull, passes through one eye of the jib boom;
2. Line that is attached to the lifebelt (safety belt for sailors) with one end and the other end is hooked onto the ship with a carabiner to prevent falling overboard or falling out of the rigging (also known as lifeline ) - SOS
- Morse emergency number officially introduced in 1908. → see Morse code # SOS
- Spake
- Steering wheel spoke
- Clamping screw
- Screw for stiffening the standing material also device for pulling wires together
- Frames
- "Ribs" of the ship to stiffen the hull
- Bacon roll
- a historical tool for duplicating stowage plans
- scupper
- also Nüstergatt device or opening for draining water
- Food roll
- List of minimum provisions on board
- Spicktakel
- Tackle for holding a whale alongside the ship
- Chimpanzee
- Wooden or steel barrel for fat, whale fat and others
- Spar
- Horizontal round timber, for example in the rigging as a yard, gaff, tree, bowsprit, jib boom, bar etc.
- spinnaker
- bulbous, light headsail
- Spider head
- a hardwood board with lots of holes for the awnings
- Spitfire
- Sturmklüver
- splice
- join two rope ends together by braiding them
- Split horn
- (or splice horn ) was a cow horn used as a vessel to carry sebum . The split horn was worn on the belt and was next to the knife and the marlin spike, the tip of which was greased with tallow before use, the tools of the riggers and sailors
- Sprag
- young cod
- Sprayhood
- Stretched half-canopy of yachts made of cloth
- Spreader
- (Spreader) Container lifting frame
- Spritsail
- (Square) sail of a ship or boat with a loose foot, which is spread diagonally from the mast by a spar, i.e. without a tree
- Jump
- Fore-spring: mooring line running aft at the bow; Aft spring: mooring line at the stern that runs forward
- Spring tide
- higher tidal water as a result of full or new moon, the opposite is the nipp tide
- Fuel flag
- Petrol flag; red flag with white disc
- Leap
- Negative ( convex ) or positive ( concave ) jump denote the line of the hull shape from the stem to the stern
- Thermocline
- sudden changes in salinity, temperature and density in sea water
- Bar deck
- a term used in yacht construction for deck planking made of wood
- Staff Captain
- On large passenger ships a captain who takes turns relieving his superiors of some of the social duties
- Stag
- Steel cable for fastening the mast in the longitudinal direction of the ship, see standing rigging
- Stagreiter
- They are used to hook the luff of the headsail onto the forestay when setting the sails, which is not required with the furling systems that are common today
- stamp
- Movements of the ship around the transverse axis
- Stamping day
- a tamping day is part of the rigging of a sailing ship. It is counted as a standing good . It is stretched between the bowsprit or the jib boom and the stem of the bow
- Stamping stick
- : (rare Delphi scourge) a component of a sailing ship for rigging, the jib-boom to improve, see rigging
- Baseline
- a line or curve on the surface of the earth on which, according to a measurement, the position of the observer must be
- Launch
- launching a new ship in the shipyard
- Starcut
- a spinnaker with a star-shaped cut of the sail tracks
- Stauerviz
- Foreman of the showers
- standing wind
- steady wind
- standing rigging
- the part of the rigging of the rigging of a sailing ship or boat that is not moved during maneuvers, today mostly made of steel cables
- stiff
- A ship is stiff if it rolls (heels) only a little in the sea due to its low center of gravity and these movements are not soft but rather hard. High demands on the construction. Opposite: rank
- Riser block
- increased command post on the quarterdeck of old sailing ships
- Steiger
- Mooring pontoon on the Rhine
- Rack
- "Board" that is hung on ropes on the outer wall of the ship to do work (instead of scaffolding)
- Stelling
- a walkway between ship and pier or from ship to ship
- Stiffness
- Part of the rigging above the spreader , extension of the mast above the first spreader on a sailing boat or sailing ship
- Starboard
- StB; engl. Starboard; S, right side of the ship, looking in the direction of travel
- Control light
- on the tug as a steering aid for the towed ship
- Control stick
- a glow lamp at the front of the bow as a guide and steering aid for the helmsman
- steward
- the waiter, pantry man, attendant on board a ship
- Gland bulkhead
- rear collision bulkhead
- Store
- Pantry / storeroom
- Flotsam
- Shipload washed up on the beach
- strand
- Towing wire in inland navigation
- Strand clamp
- this will fix the towing wire on board the tugboat
- Strand winch
- The towing wires are wound on it, up to 1500 m long
- Line rope
- Ropes stretched by tall ships on the upper deck
- Line
- the 32nd part of a compass circle = 11.25 °
- Power line
- that part of a river or lake where the current has its greatest speed
- Electricity shipping
- Shipping using the ocean currents
- Current sailing
- Sailing on rivers using the tidal currents in the lower reaches of the rivers up to the weir, as well as in the upper reaches of the rivers using the groyne currents
- Strop
- Loop in a rope; Chain, cable
- Stump chamber
- Klaus Störtebeker is said to have amassed immeasurable treasures in a cave in the stump chamber on the island of Rügen
- Stub mast
- short mast without a pole
- Viewfinder
- 1. echo sounder ; 2. depth gauge; 3. Rangefinder; 4. Star table for finding the stars
- support
- Command , lay the ship on a straight course
- Support rudder!
- Command to counteract the turning of the ship during a turning maneuver
- Südstein
- According to unproven tradition, the mythical Chinese emperor Huáng Dì is said to be in 2634 BC. BC in China used the first compass , a piece of magnetic iron stone that floated on a bamboo board in a water bowl and thereby leveled off in the north-south direction. This knowledge has been known in Europe since ancient Greece .
- Suez headlights
- Searchlight construction prescribed for ships on the Suez Canal (Suez Canal searchlight)
- Sund
- a passage between the mainland and an island, e.g. B. Fehmarnsund
- Coaming (coaming)
- Increased demarcation between hatch and deck
- Freshwater sailor
- Mocking name for the inland boatman on the part of the seafarer
- sweater
- 1. wool jacket; 2. People flayer
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- Tray jockey
- Mock name for the steward
- typhoon
- tropical cyclone in Southeast Asia
- Rigging
- The entirety of mast (s) , sails and the standing and running rigging ( cordage ) of a sailing ship
- Packets
- particularly strong work suit
- Rigging (sart)
- Differentiation of the sailing ship types according to their equipment with sails and masts
- Riggers
- historical, hand-operated acoustic signal device
- Riggers
- Craftsman who makes the rigging from blocks and cordage
- Whipping
- Wrapping the end of a line with whipping twine to prevent untwisting of the fibers, strands and cardeles
- run downhill
- floating, driving, or being towed down a river
- Tally man
- Cargo controller
- Tally chopsticks
- the Chinese give a bamboo stick for each piece of unloaded cargo (see also: counting needle )
- Tackle
- Pulley
- Rope
- Also Tamp, the end of a line , in the nautical colloquial language also an approx. 80 cm long end with which the boatswain “stopped” the men to work.
- Tang
- large seaweed, brown alga
- Tangodyel
- Portable radio
- Tarpaulin
- English name for tarpaulin
- Diver
- 1. colloquially submarine ; 2. Man with diving equipment; 3. Pickpocket
- Diving rescuers
- Rescue breathing apparatus in the submarine
- Immersion tank
- Diving cell in the submarine
- Thousandbone
- Brush-like knotting work on stays and shrouds, often braided from leftover rope, to protect the sails and ropes
- cordage
- all braided and twisted ropes
- Tay anchor
- Search anchor
- Flat cap
- Flat headgear for sailors with two dark ribbons hanging freely at the back
- tender
- Auxiliary, transport and supply vehicle for a ship or a ship formation
- Devil's claw
- a double hook
- tide
- ( Low German tiet = time) the cycle of ebb and flow on the great waters of the earth caused by the gravitation of the moon and the sun
- Tidewater
- a dangerous piece of wood floating upright in the sea
- Depth six
- throw an object overboard
- Tiner
- Box or trap- like , baited lobster trap , is left on the leash to the bottom
- Tingeltangel
- All kinds of amusement opportunities on shore leave
- Tablecloth
- a cloud over table mountain ( cape town )
- Daughter compass
- The gyro compass (mother compass) is set up as protected as possible below deck and transmits its display electrically to any number of subsidiary compasses (steering or bearing compass) at various points in the ship
- Tom Cox's traverse
- the useless corridors of a sailor to escape from work
- tonnage
- von Ton was created at a time when ships were measured by the number of "tons", or barrels, that they could transport. Different port cities used different dimensions, so that the specification of the reference dimension, e.g. B. the "Lübschen bin" defined by Lübeck was necessary. At the same time, load-bearing capacity information was also used in "loads"
- ton
- floating nautical mark firmly anchored in a certain position, often incorrectly referred to by laypeople as a buoy (a buoy is a floating body anchored in the ground for mooring ships or boats)
- Toon bank
- Hamburg term for counter, bar, also as a sales counter
- Top
- top end (e.g. of a mast )
- Masthead light, masthead lantern
- a position light in the mast top
- Top pant
- 1. rope or wire running from the masthead to the nock of a yard;
2. Line to hold up the spinnaker pole. Not to be confused with Dirk , who holds trees up behind masts (e.g. the large tree). - Topsail
- is placed above the gaff at gaff rigs, between it and the mast
- Top guest
- experienced sailor whose job is in the rigging
- Topp and rig
- mostly used as the expression “to lance in front of the top and rigging”: drifting without sails before the storm.
- Gate fire
- Identical beacons arranged in pairs on both sides of a fairway
- Trip
- a lap, twist, turn; also sailing tour ( sailing trip ).
- dead sail
- if two ships sail together close to the wind and one runs ahead of the other, the slower one has “sailed to death”.
- Hydrofoil
- High-speed watercraft, which is raised by means of underwater hydrofoils when the speed increases.
- Tramp ship
- see tramp shipping
- Hitchhiking
- (trample, with a strong appearance) a sign for the duty officer on duty (OvD) that his guards have not fallen asleep at night.
- Trapezoid
- Construction, which on dinghies serves a sailor to shift his weight over the edge of the boat in order to better balance the boat.
- Trapeze pants
- Piece of equipment that is required for using a harness : roughly similar to short dungarees with a hook over the stomach into which the harness wire can be hung. The sailor can then hang outboard on this to balance the boat
- Traveler
- Running sledge on sailing boats, with which the deck-side attack point of the mainsheet can be moved to leeward or windward
- Trawl
- the bottom trawl
- Towing
- towing a ship from the bank, only possible along canals and rivers
- trim
- 1. Optimizing the weight distribution in order to achieve an ideal swimming position through appropriate distribution of cargo, ballast or crew.
2. Optimizing the feathering position.
3. general for: to put things in order - Trinity house
- (from English Trinity House ) English corporation for the maintenance and manning of lighthouses , lightships , etc.
- Triple leash
- Line for monitoring the anchor position and, if necessary, for loosening the anchor. It is attached to the water surface at one end with a buoy and at the other end to the lower end of the anchor shaft
- hawser
- heavy line for mooring or towing
- Troyer
- knitted wool jacket, sweater or undershirt made of wool
- Trunk deck
- elevated deck above the cargo tanks of an inland tanker. The pipes, tank domes and gate valves are attached to it
- Tsunami
- ( Japanese津 波, harbor wave; from 津tsu, harbor, and 波nami, wave ) is a rapidly moving ocean wave that is mainly triggered by an earthquake on the ocean floor (often referred to as a "seaquake")
- Twitch
- Technique of trawling, two ships (barges or Polten) haul a bottom trawl under sail for several hours over the ground.
- tower
- Construction in a submarine , which often also includes the command center
- tutta forza
- Italian. Full speed ahead, in parlance: "Now but tutta forza"
- twist
- Cleaning wool
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Keyword : Uniform [ ˈjuːnɪfɔːɹm ]
- go over stag
- turning a sailing ship (against the wind )
- Defector
- 1. Curved steel brackets on the stern of tugs that run across the ship and prevent the towing wires from tangling on the superstructure.
2. Pinching windings on a winch that can no longer be easily loosened. - consider
- putting the oar from one side to the other.
- Overseas transport companion
- formerly jokingly derogatory term for the traveling personnel of the merchant shipping.
- dammed
- the cargo to be disembarked first is covered by another
- Over days
- Name for herrings that remain in the fish hold 24 hours after being caught; they are only half the value
- over rigged
- too much sail area on a sailing ship. Can be meant absolutely if the ship has a large sail area in relation to the displacement, or relatively, if the sail area is too large for the current wind conditions. Over rigging can bring speed advantages, but at the same time increases the stress on the material and the risk of capsizing.
- Surface ship
- the part of the ship's hull that lies above the construction waterline.
- UHL
- Ultra Heavy Lift lifting system in the shipyard industry for heavy and extra heavy loads, e.g. B. Ship sections.
- ULCC
- Ultra Large Crude Carrier , oil tankers with more than 320,000 - 549,000 tons of deadweight .
- Umiak
- Eskimo transport boat , often driven by women.
- Accident boat
- that has to be swung out on board of passenger ships.
- Approx.
- roughly, on nautical charts .
- not clear
- everything that is not operational, not in order and not ready for use, especially ropes lying around.
- uniform
- Latin unus forma - uniform shape, uniform uniform.
- under land
- move the vessel close to the shore. The term is particularly used when it provides protection from offshore winds and corresponding wave formation.
- Under fire
- In the case of leading lights, the lower light, which is closer to the fairway, which is brought into a vertical bearing together with the upper light and marks a fairway.
- Underhaul
- when a front anchor lying ship is inclined by an underwater flow down to the chain direction.
- Distinctive signal
- ( callsign ) consists of a sequence of letters and numbers . These can usually be transmitted faster and more clearly by radio than long ship names.
- Underwater ship
- that part of the ship's hull that lies below the construction waterline.
- "Ursula"
- English bad weather clothing.
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- Valeman
- Sailor who scoops out the herring slaughter with a scooping net from the herring manger and distributes it, thus indicating the pace of work
- Vamarie rigging
- Spreading gaff rigging
- vanish
- 1. Slang for
someone who is supposed to disappear 2. math. disappear, become zero - VCM tanker
- Vinyl chloride monomer tanker
- Blocking
- Wedging cargo
- Fraternization shackles
- a U-shaped shackle with an oval bolt that connects the anchor chain and anchor
- displacement
- the liquid displaced by masses; see Archimedes' principle or repression
- Displacement tonnage
- Displacement, Deplacementtonnage, is a misnomer and is used for warships that are not measured, but where the port - channel - and similar charges after the displacement are calculated
- caught
- means something like relieve sb
- get up, move up
- move a ship to another berth or anchorage
- shadow
- the deployment of two anchors in a row
- Clicker
- a small ribbon or flag that is usually attached to the standing rigging of a sailing boat in a clearly visible manner to indicate the wind direction
- roll
- beat up
- entrenchment
- the fixed part of the railing
- moor
- mooring a ship with lines on land, on bollards , etc.
- spoiled
- Lines or chains that are unclear
- warp
- the warpage of a boat to another location by means of the anchor line
- Very signal system
- according to the Morse code principle with red and green flares: red = dot, green = dash; no longer in use
- VDR
- Association of German Shipowners
- VLOOC
- Very Large Ore Oil Carrier; very large ore-oil driver, -freighter, combined cargo ship with a heavy lift capacity of 150,000 tons to 300,000 tons and above
- Bird navigation
- At some point, seafarers first came up with the idea of taking birds on board, which move towards land as they fly up. One of the most famous examples, Noah's test for the sinking of the flood
- People's Officer
- Ship's officer who emerged from the crew stand
- full and at
- Course close to the wind at which the relationship between altitude and speed is optimal, d. H. most of the way to windward is made
- keep full
- steer the ship so that the sails are fully full
- Full freezer
- Rear catcher
- dogs running in front of their master
- before a hurricane herlaufende swell
- Forward line (bow line)
- A ship needs four mooring lines on each side , two on the front and two on the stern. If the ship is lying along the quay, the relevant lateral fore line points diagonally forward from the bow to the quay
- at first
- Everything that comes from the front (front sea, front wind)
- luff
- the leading edge of the sail which is not a square sail is
- Jump
- That of the two front mooring lines that points diagonally backwards towards the quay from the bow
- Quarter turn
- bars
- Votive ship
- Ship models in churches , as a dedication or gift
- Voyage data recorder
- collects data from sensors on board ships
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- Libra
- a triangular plate on the yacht headstay for jib halyard, forestay and luff
- Wabos
- Abbreviation for depth charges
- Truth
- 1. Warning call : “Attention!”, “Caution!” (From Low German: Warning , from Middle Low German warschuwinge = warning , compare Dutch waarschuwen = to warn ). Derived from this, see true: warn, instruct, notify
2. Fixed warning device , e.g. B. a buoy on a wreck; especially for inland shipping: warning device in the form of a light signal point, previously also with flag signals - Wake up
- an open, not frozen area in the ice sheet; generally also the wake of a ship permeated by eddies
- wake-homer
- Torpedo finding the target by chasing the wake
- Walkee
- Pidgin-English for steamer, screw steamer
- Walking
- the strange shock when touching the ground
- Walloper
- amer. Slang: casual workers in docks at shipyards, harbor shoppers
- Wall rail
- Rubbing strake, the strong version
- Whale back deck
- Round deck
- Brown rat
- also Kairatte, harbor thief
- Shrouds
- Ropes for the lateral tensioning of the masts, see standing rigging
- Was nose
- Warhead of a torpedo
- Warp
- see warpanker
- Warpanker
- Throw anchor, current anchor, drag anchor
- Warrlümmel
- Wooden club for stirring herring and salt
- Washboard
- Plank placed on the edge of the ship to increase the freeboard, between the floor walls
- Wash water
- Sea hammer water
- Make water
- Full of water, for example because of a leak
- Water bomb
- Explosive charge with adjustable pressure detonator, which explodes in the preset water depth
- Depth charges racks
- Bracket for seaworthy storage of depth charges
- Water supply
- Slang expression when there are no fish in the net while net fishing
- Water convertible
- Motorboat with folding top
- Water limo
- Motorboat with a closed roof
- Waterline
- is the line that results from the intersection of the water surface with the hull of a floating ship
- Wasserschout , also pattern writer or enrollment officer
- today the seaman's office official
- Waterway
- Sea route, fairway through ice, etc.
- Waterbailiff
- engl. hist .: port customs officer
- watt
- Areas in the intertidal zone of the coasts that dry out at low tide
- Loom lines
- short, transverse dew pieces tied to the shrouds serve as a ladder for climbing out
- Webeleinenstek (mast throw)
- Easy to tie sailor's knot for attaching a line to a thick line, a pipe or the like.
- Changing fire
- a celebratory fire that alternately shows signs of light of different colors
- Flooring
- the inner lining of the ship is mainly used for insulation
- Women's knot
- the wrong square or reef knot, also housewife's knot ; he is the business card of the undocumented man
- White squall
- dangerous unexpected hurricane-like fall wind, accompanied by torrential rain, fog or snow as well as white foam crowns, which are not announced by clouds.
- White wall
- Giant wave with a head of foam
- White dog
- is a high wave that passes over a ship in rough seas
- Wave system
- The entirety of the device for transmitting the rotary motion of the prime mover to the propeller
- Shaft soothing oil
- was used in shipping to reduce the waves on the high seas, e.g. B. in sea rescue
- Wave tie
- see displacer and glider
- Wave generator
- A sensor mounted on the propeller shaft power generator on sailing boats, which serves the energy of the co-rotating through the flow during the drive under sail propeller convert into electrical energy. Often installed in sea and inland waterway vessels so that the auxiliary diesel does not have to be operated while the vehicle is in motion.
- Shaft tunnel
- Corridor between the engine and the propeller
- Turn indicator
- nautical device that the direction of rotation and, optionally, also the rotation speed of the vessel upon operation of the steering gear indicating
- turn
- Change direction of travel against the wind (with sails turning)
- Weather prophet
- Mocking name for the meteorologist , rheumatoid sailor
- Bets
- Boat races
- Wieling
- a circumferential piece of rope or fabric as a rubbing strip or fender (especially tauwieling )
- Willy-Willy
- small, violent cyclone on the west coast of Australia
- Wind triangle
- a navigational calculation in aviation and shipping with regard to the forces of winds with the help of the sine law
- Scoop
- in shipbuilding the term for the rotating head part of a pressure fan
- Tall ship
- Tall ship
- Wink alphabet
- (Semaphore) is used for the optical transmission of messages between ships
- winch
- One-way rotatable drum around which a line can be placed. Inside the drum there is a gear with which the drum can be rotated. It is driven by a motor or a hand crank placed on top of the drum.
- Seesaw
- Low German for wagtail , constantly restless sailor
- Widows
- Seafarers who were carried on board only in name and whose wages were intended for sailor widows
- Where from!
- Ask the lookout in which direction a sail, fire or object is
- wrestle
- move a boat forward with just one oar over the stern
- Wuling or Wuhling
- Expression for crowd, confusion (poorly put up cordage); Wuhling ropes used to be used as rope wraps around the mast to stabilize it
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- X-band
- ( Radio ) frequency band from 5200 to 11000 MHz
- X-craft
- Small submarine
- X mast
- Crossed masts on which the sail is driven
- X-turret
- second (raised) turret from aft
- Xebec
- Schebeke, a small three-master with two Latin sails and a mizzen
- Xmitter
- (Radio) transmitter
- XY recorder
- Coordinate recorder
- XY control
- Control by means of track ball or joystick
- Xylamone
- Impregnation agent for wood against rot and worm damage
- Xylolite
- Stone wood, often used for waterproofing, e.g. B. stuffing box, shaft
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- yacht
- or yacht (from the same word Dutch yacht, shortened from Dutch jageschip "fast ship"), a watercraft for recreational purposes with a cabin . There are both motor yachts and sailing yachts .
- Yacht design
- Yacht draft, yacht drawing
- Marina
- a port whose moorings, berths and facilities are geared towards the needs of recreational shipping ( sailing yachts and motor yachts ).
- Yachtie
- Slang; derogatory term for an arrogant or inexperienced yacht owner
- Yankee
- Klüvertoppsail
- Yard-arm turn signal
- Signal lamp on the Rahnock
- Yard tackle
- Loading valley of the loading boom standing overboard when working with coupled trees
- Yardstick
- (from the English derived from Elle) is a calculation system for sailing regattas that goes back to the Englishman Zillwood Milledge. It allows dinghies or yachts of different designs to compete against each other in a regatta
- Yarn
- Whipping twine, seaman's twine
- Yawljigger
- Driver, topsail
- Yellow metal
- a brass-like copper alloy , is often used in yacht building for bolts, nails, etc.
- Yeoman
- Boat rowers of the engl. royal state barge on the River Thames
- Yhle
- spawned herring
- "Yo-heave-ho!", "Yo-ho!"
- Rush
- York-Antwerp rules
- Rules for the distribution of damage in the event of a major accident.
- Youngster
- Midshipman fresh from the military academy on board
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- Zampelbüdel
- also Zampel, a bag made of canvas or other coarse material as a piece of luggage
- Zeese
- Name for a trawl in the Baltic Sea
- Zeiser, Zeising
- (v. Niederd. seisen 'tie two ropes together') a short line that is used to tie or secure sails or other equipment
- Time ball
- A ball that can be seen from afar, usually mounted on a high tower, was triggered (dropped) at a certain time to allow the ships to precisely set the chronometer on sight
- Zenith
- Point perpendicular above the observer, vertex of the sky; opposite to it is the foot point or nadir
- Centering chain
- is used when docking ships
- Stuff
- 1. Term for seafarers' clothing.
2. Term for rigging - Doing stuff washing
- Washing of own clothing and other personal laundry by the owner
- Destination
- direct control of lightships , radio stations or ships in distress
- Rill butcher
- Scrappers in inland navigation
- Zinc protection
- Zinc sacrificial anodes as protection against corrosion
- Folding rule
- Third auxiliary stand, triangular flag with white, black and white stripes from top to bottom. Meaning: I have customs goods on board.
- At the same time!
- Command ( zuuu-same, as Haurúck emphasizes) when all men should pull at one end at the same time
- Zurrbrook
- Used to hold a boat hanging on a davit (crane on the railing of larger ships)
- lash
- tie up
- Lashing ring
- Special rope used for lashing and lashing
- to turn on
- 1. Do overtime
2. Call of the boatswain Tööörn tou , calls the deck aisle in the morning or after work breaks - Between deck
- Decks in the hatches of multipurpose freighters that allow optimal distribution of cargo; today z. Some also constructed as height-adjustable decks (car decks)
- Intermediate frames
- Components that are installed between the regular frames for the purpose of local reinforcement
- Twelve tusk
- Rowing boat with twelve men on board at the oars
- cylinder
- WC
Web links
- Glossary of sailing terms
- Small lexicon of sailor expressions
- Marine glossary of the DMI
- Marine encyclopedia of the Bundeswehr
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Helmut Hanke: Men, Planks, Oceans: the six thousand year adventure of seafaring . 9th edition. Urania-Verlag , Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-332-00238-4 .
- ^ The "romantic" seafaring, SyltIMPULS December 2010, pp. 18-20 ( Memento from June 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Jürgen Gebauer, Egon Krenz: Marine Encyclopedia - From A to Z. Tosa Verlag, Vienna 2003; unabridged licensed edition of RM Buch u. Medien Vertriebs GmbH u. the connected Book clubs; Book No. 003765
- ^ Lexicon of classic water sports. Retrieved October 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Jack London: Fish Pirate Tales . 1st edition. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag GmbH - DTV, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-423-01176-9 , p. 102 .
- ↑ Marcus Buck: Wöörbook , Plattmakers Dictionary, accessed on July 22, 2016
- ↑ Karl Schiller; August Lübben: Middle Low German Dictionary . tape 4 . Verlag von J. Küthmanns Buchhandlung, Bremen 1878, p. 244 . Digitized
- ↑ SAIL SHIPS - Slup, Schlup, engl. Sloop. Retrieved October 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Everything about sails: The gaff sail. Retrieved October 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Comparison of different rig gardens. Retrieved October 16, 2017 .
- ^ Franz Ulffers: Handbook of seamanship . 1st edition. Verlag Ernst Siegfried Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1972, p. 38 .
- ^ Dick / Kretschmer: Handbook of seamanship . ES Miller et al. Sohn, Hamburg 1902, ISBN 978-1-274-46539-9 , p. 143, 183, 474 .
- ↑ Duden, Wahrschau , Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, accessed on July 16, 2016
- ↑ Karl Schiller; August Lübben: Middle Low German Dictionary . tape 5 . Verlag von J. Küthmanns Buchhandlung, Bremen 1880, p. 608 . Digitized
- ↑ From the Low German = warn , given by Franz Woeste for Westphalia as wârschauen , for East Friesland as wårschauen (Franz Woeste: Dictionary of Westphalian dialect . Soltau's Verlag, Norden; Leipzig 1882. ).