SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS

**Definition:** This place covers:

Details of hulls, hydrofoils and keels:

Other structural parts of ships or other waterborne vessels:

Docking, moving and anchoring equipment::

Equipment for navigation, position-marking, signalling, or lighting:

Equipment for controlling and indication vessel attitude:

Onboard safety features:

Cleaning of ships or other waterborne vessels:

Means for controlling ballast water or for removing unwanted onboard water:

Loading equipment or accommodation for cargo or passengers:

Other:

**Limiting references (this place does not cover):** - Arrangements of vessel ventilation, heating, cooling, or air-conditioning -> B63J2/00 - Floating substructures as supports of dredgers or soil-shifting machines -> E02F9/06

**Glossary:** - Accident: An event which is sudden, unvoluntary, and harmful. - Attitude: The position of a vessel in relation to its line of travel. The orientation in space of a floating or submerged body. - Awning: A roof-like removable or fixed covering, e. g. of canvas, used as a shelter from sun or rain, in particular above a deck of a vessel. - Bailing: Pumping or scooping out water that has entered the interior of a vessel or water craft. - Balance: Equilibrium. - Ballast: Any heavy material, such as gravel, sand, metal, water, etc., placed in the hold of a ship to weigh it down in the water and prevent it from capsizing when under sail or in motion - Barge: A flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods, often not self-propelled but towed or pushed by tugs. - Berth: A bed, bunk or sleeping-place in a ship, usually narrow and fixed to a wall; A long box or shelf for sleeping, on the side of a cabin. - Boat-hook: A pole-handled hook used for fending off or pulling a boat. - Bog shoe: A buoyant device attachable to one's foot to assist with walking upon boggy or swampy terrain or morass. - Bilge: Part of the hull and corresponding compartment of a ship where the hull sides curve inward to meet at the keel. - Bilge keel: Longitudinally extending profile protruding from the outer surface of the bilge, for resisting rolling motion. - Block: A support for facilitating storage of boats, typically matching the boat's hull shape. - Bollard: A wooden or iron post on a ship or quay to which ropes may be secured. - Breeches-buoy: A rescue device used to evacuate personnel from wrecked vessels, typically comprising a circular buoyant ring with an integral sit harness. The buoy is suspended on a zip-wire and designed to be hauled to the safety of shore or an adjacent vessel. - Bunker: A compartment for solid or fluid fuel. - Bulkhead: An upright wall within the hull of a ship, separating hull compartments. - Canoe: A small open boat propelled by a single-bladed paddle; term often used for any kind of paddle-propelled boat. - Canopy: A protective roof, e.g. tent-like made of canvas. A dome-shaped cabin roof. - Carcass: The structural skeleton of a ship, including ribs, keel, stem, and stern-post, after the planks are stripped off. - Centreboard: A retractable keel arranged centrally on sailboats to prevent leeward drift. - Chock: A pad, packing or bedding typically from wood or an elastomeric material, used for distributing localised loads acting on a boat's or ship's hull, e.g. from struts or shores ; a wooden support upon which a boat rests when stowed on a vessel, e.g. on the vessel's deck - Clear-view screen: A glass disk mounted in a window, usually on the bridge of a ship, that rotates at high speed to disperse rain, spray, and snow, typically driven at the centre of the screen. - Cleat: A device to which ropes may be fastened, featuring two horns extending parallel to the surface on which it is mounted. - Cofferdam: A caisson attachable to the outside of a ship's hull for providing dry access to underwater elements, e.g for repair; a watertight empty space separating particular ship spaces, e.g. cargo oil tanks, from other spaces - Collision mat: A large square of canvas, treated with a sealing agent and attached to lines at each corner, hauled over a damaged part of the hull to limit the inflow of water. - Davit: A crane on the side or stern of a ship for raising or lowering loads, often arranged in pairs for lowering lifeboats. - Derrick: A crane for hoisting heavy loads, comprising a movable boom and furnished with suitable tackle for loading and unloading cargo; A loading or unloading rig comprising a single boom pivotally supported on or near the deck on one end, suspended from a mast by means of a single span or tackle on the other end, and provided on this other end with rope or tackle for load lifting or lowering. - Draft: The vertical distance between the waterline and the bottom of the hull. A large draft increases stability in high winds, whilst a small draft allows a vessel to navigate through shallower waters. - Dragging: Drawing or pulling with force something which is heavy and resists motion; Hauling. - Drogue: A funnel-like device deployed in the water behind a vessel to create drag in order to reduce vessel speed or improve stability. - Drop keel: A retractable keel that can be moved between deployed and retracted positions, to allow sailing in shallow waters. - Dunnage: Material or packaging deployed around cargo to secure it during transportation. - Fairing: An outer structure designed to reduce drag, e.g. as a cable fairing which improves the cable's passage through the water by acting as a streamlined sleeve. - Fairlead: A ring or aperture on a boat to guide ropes or the like, in order to prevent entanglement or rubbing on other structures. - Fender: A buffer to protect a vessel's hull from chafing or collision with a wharf or with other vessels. - Fiddle: A guardrail used on a table during rough weather to prevent things from slipping off. - Flare: A device that produces a bright light for signaling, illumination, or identification. - Fluke: A flat blade upon an anchor, designed to penetrate and grip the seabed. - Fouling: The growth of marine organisms such as barnacles in the underwater portion of a ship's hull. - Frame: A beam-like steel structure secured to the shell of a hull to increase its strength and rigidity. A vertical transverse constructional section through a ship's hull. - Galley: The cooking-room or kitchen on a ship. - Gantry crane: A bridge crane travelling on rails and supported on a frame or platform. - Grating: A framework of wooden or metal bars. - Gyroscope: A rapidly rotating mass used for decreasing vessel movements, in particular roll. - Hatch: A hatchway; a hatch cover; a trap-door or grated framework for covering openings in a deck. - Hatch beam: A beam placed across a hatch opening to support hatch covers. - Hatch coaming: A raised lip around a hatch opening to prevent unwanted ingress of surface water when the hatch is open. - Hatchway: A square or oblong opening in the deck of a ship through which cargo can be lowered into the hold. - Hawser: Anchor or mooring line, rope or cable; towing rope, towline. - Hawse-hole: An opening in the hull of a vessel through which an anchor cable or anchor chain passes. - Hawse-pipe: A pipe beneath the hawse-hole through which the anchor cable or anchor chain passes. - Hydrofoil: A wing-like structure positioned below a hull which creates hydrodynamic lift when a vessel is moved through the water at speed. The term is also used to describe vessels which use hydrofoil features to lift the hull out of the water at speed, thereby reducing drag. - Hydroplane: A light water craft which skims over the water surface at high speeds. - Inboard: Within the sides of a ship or vessel, or inside the hull of a ship or vessel. - Kayak: A small boat made of a framework of light wood covered with sealskins sewn together, and with a covered opening for the user and propelled by a double-paddle, or a sport or touring boat developed from this design. - Keel: A longitudinal beam around which the hull is built; a subsurface fin protruding from the hull to afford directional control and stability - Keelson: A longitudinal structural member secured to the keel and arranged parallel to the keel and above the transverse members such as timbers, frames or floors to increase longitudinal strength and rigidity, and to bind the keel to the transverse members. - Kite: Light tethered wind-lifted flexible foil. - Kite-sail: Kite held by user or tethered to water-craft for employing tether tension for wind driven water craft propulsion. - Lashing: Fastening a movable body with a cord or the like. - Lining: An internal protective wall covering, e.g. for heat or acoustic insulation. - Lifeboat: An open or covered boat, motorized or propelled by wind or muscle power, e.g. by oars, for rescue of crew and passengers at sea. - Lifeboat-like craft: A small auxiliary boat, e.g. dinghy, zodiac or jolly-boat, carried on a larger vessels, e.g. for providing access to the shore, or for transfer to other vessels. - Lighter: A flat-bottomed barge, typically unpowered, used for transferring goods and passengers to and from moored ships; A flat-bottomed unpowered barge for transporting goods. - Lighthouse: A fixed structure in the form of a tower equipped with a strong light visible to mariners for warning them of obstructions, for marking harbour entrances, etc. - Lightship: A ship equipped like a lighthouse and anchored where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable. - Monolithic concrete: Concrete, hardened into a solid unbroken mass - Mooring: Securing a boat or vessel in a particular place, e.g. by tying-up or anchoring. - Paravane: Towed device depth controlled by vanes, in particular for cutting mooring lines of anchor mines; board towed at an angle to the towing direction for producing transverse spreading forces on a trawl net or a towed array of hydrophones. - Panelling: A wall facing, wall lining, wainscot. - Pitch: The rotary motion of a vessel about a horizontal axis perpendicular to its longitudinal axis or direction of motion. - Planing surface: A substantially horizontal surface on the underside of a light water craft of the hydroplane type which generates hydrodynamic lift when skimming at high speed over the water surface. - Pollution: Harmful substances left in the environment. - Pontoon: A stationary floating structure, typically used for support purposes, e.g. landing stages. - Port: A door, gate or closable opening. - Port-hole: A typically circular window in the side of a boat or ship. - Rat guard: A disk of sheet metal fitted around a hawser to prevent rats from boarding a vessel moored at a dock. - Roll: The rotary movement of a vessel about an axis parallel to its longitudinal axis or direction of motion. - Rubbing strake: A protective strip running along the length of the upper hull to prevent damage when coming alongside other structures or vessels. - Scupper: A hole in a ship's side to carry water from the deck overboard. - Shaft bracket: A bracket for supporting a propeller shaft extending external to the hull, e.g. on twin propeller vessels. - Shell: The structural watertight skin of a ship's hull. - Shifting: Moving a vessel from one place to another, e.g. from one berth to another, or using an anchor and warp to pull a vessel into position. - Shipping: Ships collectively. Navigation. The act of putting persons or things onboard ship or transporting them by ship. - Side board: A retractable keel at the side of a sailing boat or sailing vessel, that can be moved between deployed and retracted positions, to allow sailing in shallow waters. - Skid fender: A removable fender strip which facilitates launching of lifeboats over a ship's side whilst offering protection from damage by striking against the side of the ship. - Slewing: Turning (a thing) round upon its own axis, or without shifting it from its place. - Soil-water: Sewage from water closets, or used waste-water, e.g. used for washing, bathing, cleaning, flushing. - Stability: The ability of a floating vessel to remain upright or return to an upright position when disturbed. - Stanchion: An upright support, often for the ship's guard rail or bulwark. - Stay: An inclined rope or cable forming part of the standing rigging, used for imparting lateral stability to a mast or other superstructure. - Stem: A structural member extending upward from the keel at the bow of a ship's hull. - Stern frame: A strong structural assembly forming the stern construction, often comprising a rudder shoe and a stern boss. - Stern post: A strong structural hull member extending upward from the keel at the stern, often comprising a rudder shoe and a stern boss. - Sailboard: A wind-propelled surfboard. - Stowing: The placing and securing of cargo on board of a vessel, e.g. in the hold; The storing of provisions between decks. - Superstructure: Those parts of a ship, other than masts and rigging, which protrude above the main deck. - Surf-board: A small recreational board-like planing hull for supporting a user, e.g. wind-propelled or for riding on the crest of a wave. - SWATH vessel: A vessel of the Small Waterline Area Twin Hull type - Tackle: A combination of pulley-blocks and a rope for facilitating hoisting or lowering of heavy bodies. - Trawler: A fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet. - Trimming: Adjustment or division of ballast and/or cargo to alter a vessel's draft or trim. The distribution of buoyancy and load; Controlling, when lowering or hoisting, the orientation of a lifeboat, or the like relative to the ship, or to the water surface. - Trolley: A carriage running on wheels, self-propelled or towed by ropes. - Turret: A heavy cylindrical body rotatably supported in a vessel's hull, predominantly connected to underwater mooring lines for allowing the moored vessel to weathervane. - Tying-up: Securing a vessel with ropes. - Vaulted deck: A deck of arched or rounded shape. - Water shoes: A buoyant device attachable to one's foot to assist with walking upon water. - Water sledge: A small sledge-like buoyant device with planing hull and propelled by towing; a small buoyant device for partly supporting a user, when riding down white-water. - Web beam: A strengthened beam built from plate-like webs and stiffening flanges. - Web frame: A strengthened frame built from plate-like high webs and stiffening flanges. - Winch: A hoisting or hauling device comprising a driven rotating drum around which a rope passes - Yaw: A movement of deviation from the direct course, as from bad steering; The angular motion or displacement about a yawing axis.