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A template of the shape of the hull in transverse section. Several moulds are used to form a temporary framework around which a hull is built.
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A term applied to a vessel when carried furiously along by a tempest.
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A system of catering in which a standard ration is issued to a mess supplemented by a money allowance which may be used by the mess to buy additional victuals from the pusser's stores or elsewhere. Each mess was autonomous and self-regulating. Seaman cooks, often members of the mess, prepared the meals and took them, in a tin canteen, to the galley to be cooked by the ship's cooks. As distinct from "cafeteria messing" where food is issued to the individual hand, which now the general practice.
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A system of aids to navigation in which characteristics of buoys and beacons indicate the sides of the channel or route relative to a conventional direction of buoyage (usually upstream).
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A suitable place for a ship to anchor. Area of a port or harbor.
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A summary punishment device.
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A summary punitive implement
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A structure consisting of a number of piles driven into the seabed or riverbed in a circular or triangular pattern and drawn together with wire rope.
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A sufficient quantity of food. Meals on board ship were served to the crew on a square wooden plate in harbor or at sea in good weather. Food in the Royal Navy was invariably better or at least in greater quantity than that available to the average landsman. However, while square wooden plates were indeed used on board ship, there is no established link between them and this particular term. The OED gives the earliest reference from the U.S. in the mid 19th century.
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A structure built on the forecastle of a ship intended to divert water away from the forward superstructure or gun mounts.
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