* Tonnes per centimeter, used in maritime cargo plans and hydrostatic calculations, relates a vessel's displacement to its draft ( also known as " tonnes per centimeter immersion ")

In the bow and stern technique, an anchor is set off each the bow and the stern, which can severely limit a vessel's swing range and also align it to steady wind, current or wave conditions.

" This form of the argument is far more difficult to separate from a purely first cause argument than is the example of the house's maintenance above, because here the First Cause is insufficient without the candle's or vessel's continued existence.

Traditionally, a vessel flying under the courtesy flag of a specific nation, regardless of the vessel's country of registry, is considered to be operating under the law of her ' host ' nation.

::: the hull form is capable of developing a moderate amount of dynamic lift, however, most of the vessel's weight is still supported through buoyancy

The main advantage of the setup is the increase of the experimental vessel's size and consequently the size of the sample, without affecting the accuracy of the calorimetric measurement.

While the vessel's wreck is roughly 200 feet long only the base of the engines exhaust funnel and a small portion of superstructure are visible above water.

The Scharnow turn is most appropriate when the point to be reached is significantly further astern than the vessel's turning radius.

Modern practical navigators usually use celestial navigation in combination with satellite navigation to correct a dead reckoning track, that is, a course estimated from a vessel's position, course and speed.

Additionally, the term broadside is a measurement of a vessel's maximum simultaneous firepower which can be delivered upon a single target, because this concentration is usually obtained by firing a broadside.

While on board the Nadesico, Akito has more problems to deal with than just the Jovians ; nearly all the female members of the crew, especially the vessel's captain Yurika Misumaru, seem to be head over heels in love with him, though all he wants to do is cook and watch his favorite anime, Gekigangar III.

Where a vessel's rudder is mounted on the centre-line, it is usual to hang it on gudgeons and pintles, the latter being upright pins and the former, rings to fit round them.

A relative bearing is one in which the reference direction is straight ahead, where the bearing is measured relative to the direction the navigator is facing ( on land ) or in relation to the vessel's bow ( aboard ship ).

A maritime lien is a lien on a vessel, given to secure the claim of a creditor who provided maritime services to the vessel or who suffered an injury from the vessel's use.

Tack is the alignment of a sailing vessel with respect to the wind when moving upwind: that is, when the vessel's bow is pointed within 90 degrees of the wind.

Thames measurement tonnage is another volumetric system, generally used for small vessels such as yachts ; it uses a formula based on the vessel's length and beam.

However, he is able to escape hyperspace when another of the mysterious ships appears and vanishes ; Keffer follows the vessel's trajectory until he locates the jumpgate beacon and is able to return to Babylon 5.

After an unsuccessful attempt at building another submarine with McClintock and Watson, which ended in the vessel's sinking in Mobile Bay, Alabama, Hunley funded by himself a third submarine.

Modern navigators often enter passage plans on electronic Chart Display and Information System | electronic systems. A good passage plan will include a track line laid out upon the largest-scale charts available which cover the vessel's track.

The statements said that five survivors from U-27 managed to board Nicosian, while the rest were shot and killed on Herbert's orders while clinging to the merchant vessel's lifeboat falls.

These towers decreased the vessel's stability, and in the 15th century, the caravel, designed by the Portuguese, based on the Arabic qarib which could sail closer to the wind, became more widely used.

A cannon on a naval vessel's deck fired during the arrival of a dignitary.

Monohull yachts are typically fitted with a fixed keel or a centreboard ( adjustable keel ) below the waterline to counterbalance the overturning force of wind on the vessel's sails.

Corner reflectors are placed on the vessel's masts at a height of at least 4. 6 meters above sea level.

The Latin word derived from the Greek amphoreus (), an abbreviation of amphiphoreus (), a compound word combining amphi-(" on both sides ", " twain ") plus phoreus (" carrier "), from pherein (" to carry "), referring to the vessel's two carrying handles on opposite sides.

A prize court's formal condemnation was required to transfer title ; otherwise the vessel's previous owners might well reclaim her on her next voyage, and seek damages for the confiscated cargo.

Moments later, the vessel's gunpowder magazine exploded, killing everyone on board, including the admiral himself and 2, 000 crew and guests at an official reception.

The ferries companies were identifiable by their different colour liveries displayed on each vessel's funnel.

An anchor mooring fixes a vessel's position relative to a point on the bottom of a waterway without connecting the vessel to shore.

PC / UMS is based on a mathematical formula to calculate a vessel's total volume ; a PC / UMS net ton is equivalent to 100 cubic feet of capacity.

The vessel's head was often buried in the solid seas, and the men, soaked and sweating, yelled out hoarsely, “ Paddy on the Railway ,” and “ We're Homeward Bound ,” while they tugged at the brakes, and wound the long, hard cable in, inch by inch.

* Stem ( ship ), the upright member mounted on the forward end of a vessel's keel, to which the strakes are attached

Although both the Cypriot and Israeli authorities were officially informed the destination was Gaza before the vessel's departure, according to the Cypriot government the ship " was given permission by the competent Authorities of the Republic of Cyprus to sail off the port of Larnaca in Cyprus on the basis of its declaration that its intended destination was the port of Port Said in Egypt.

The most notable aspects of the Hellenic Royal Navy's participation in World War II include the operations of the destroyer Vassilissa Olga which, until sunk in Leros on September 23, 1943, was the most successful Allied destroyer in the Mediterranean Sea ; the participation of two destroyers in Operation Overlord ; and the story of the destroyer Adrias, which while operating close to the coast of Kalymnos in October 1943 hit a mine, resulting in the loss of the vessel's prow, while blowing the two-gun forward turret over the bridge.

The captain had been told by his first officer that his vessel's jump engines had malfunctioned and that the weapons on the Minbari cruisers were " hot " ( active ), although this was not the case — although the gun ports were indeed open, the weapons systems were not online, and EarthForce's relatively primitive technology did not allow them to scan the Minbari vessels ' internal systems to realize this.

While images of moving vessels can be offset from the line of the earlier parts of their wakes, the more recent parts of the wake, which still partake of some of the vessel's motion, appear as curves connecting the vessel image to the relatively quiescent far-aft wake.

Some groups, such as Defenders of Wildlife, dispute the official estimates, maintaining that the volume of the spill, which was calculated by subtracting the volume of material removed from the vessel's tanks after the spill from the volume of the original cargo, has been underreported.

A vessel's class may include endorsements for the type of cargo such as " oil carrier ", " bulk carrier ", " mixed carrier " etc.

Other vessels containing living quarters for students as ancillary support to the vessel's primary function — such as for providing maritime or other training given aboard the vessel — are more appropriately categorized as training ships.

It was, in that respect, open to the UK government to introduce conditions ensuring that a ' real economic link ' existed between the ship and the State of registration, but such a link had to " concern only the relations between the vessel's operations and the population dependent on fisheries and related industries ".

Examples of such weapons would include mortars, howitzers or boat guns, the boat guns being small guns intended for mounting on the bow of a vessel's boats to provide fire support during landings, cutting out expeditions, and the like.

Manually inserted information is normally combined with data recorded from the vessel's instruments such as time and position.

In smaller surface action groups ( i. e. a single or a few task elements, such as a lone Aegis-equipped destroyer or cruisers on patrol ), the same combatant commander may be responsible for managing all three areas as part of his duty in carrying out his vessel's mission, while larger formations such as a carrier strike group may have an individual commander in charge of each separate warfare element.

The instability caused by allowing such a weighty spar to extend too far away from the vessel's centreline, however, had to be borne in mind when designing hull and rigging.