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For a selection of basic naval terms, see the log and report glossary.
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- aircraft carrier
- nautical: A vessel designed to carry aircraft and fitted with a flying deck from which aircraft are launched and on which they land. A floating flying field which usually operates as a unit of a fleet.
- bolt
- nautical: A metal rod used as a fastening. With few exceptions, such as drift bolts, a head or shoulder is made on one end and a screw thread to carry a nut is cut on the other.
- buckling
- nautical: The departure of a plate, shape, or stanchion from its designed plane or axis when subjected to load or to strains introduced during fabrication, thereby reducing its ability to carry loads.
- burden
- nautical: The carrying capacity of a vessel expressed in long tons.
- Carry on
- orders: Resume normal service of the battery. This command usually follows Silence. Also to continue with any type of work.
- Carrying [ ] Degrees Rudder, Sir
- orders: Report by helmsman to relief or conning officer giving average number of degrees right (left) rudder required to keep ship on course due to wind, tide, etc.
- CF
- abbreviation: Carry Forward
- collier
- nautical: A vessel designed for the carrying of coal, which may or may not be fitted with special appliances for coal handling.
- deadweight
- nautical: The difference between the light displacement and the full load displacement of a vessel; the total weight of cargo, fuel, water, stores, passengers, and crew and their effects that a ship can carry when at her maximum allowable draft.
- deep waterline
- nautical: The waterline at which the vessel floats when carrying the maximum allowable load.
- forecastle
- nautical: A short structure at the forward end of a vessel formed by carrying up the ship’s shell plating a deck height above the level of her uppermost complete deck and fitting a deck over the length of this structure. The name applied to the crew’s quarters on a merchant ship when they are in the fore part of the vessel.
- guys
- nautical: Wire or hemp ropes or chains to support booms, davits, etc., laterally, employed in pairs. Guys to booms that carry sails are also known as backropes.
- mast
- nautical: A long pole of steel or wood, usually circular in section, one or more of which are usually located, in an upright position, on the center line of a ship. Originally intended for carrying sails, they are now used more as supports for the rigging, cargo and boat-handling gear and wireless equipment.
- propeller
- nautical: A propulsive device consisting of a boss or hub carrying radial blades, from two to four in number. The rear or driving faces of the blades form portions of an approximately helical surface, the axis of which is the center line of the propeller shaft.
- scuppers
- nautical: Drains from decks to carry off accumulations of rain water or sea water. The scuppers are placed in the gutters or waterways on open decks and in corners of enclosed decks, and connect to pipes leading overboard.
- Silence
- orders: Used in case of serious casualty, or in case of doubt as to the seriousness of the casualty. On this command every member of the gun crew, ammunition party and all in the vicinity, freeze in their tracks and remain there motionless without noise or confusion until further orders are given, or they hear the command "Carry On". All operating machinery (hoists, train, elevation, etc.), should be stopped!