20 Terms
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Marines soldiers afloat
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Royal Marines formed as the Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot in 1664 with many and varied duties including providing guard to ship's officers should there be mutiny aboard. ...
Navigation rules
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Rules of the road that provide guidance on how to avoid collision and also used to assign blame when a collision does occur.
Running rigging
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Rigging used to manipulate sails, spars, etc. in order to control the movement of the ship. Cf. standing rigging.
Scuppers
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Originally a series of pipes fitted through the ships side from inside the thicker deck waterway to the topside planking to drain water overboard, larger quantities drained through freeing ports, ...
Halyard or halliard
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Originally, ropes used for hoisting a spar with a sail attached; today, a line used to raise the head of any sail.
Principal warfare officer (PWO)
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One of a number of Warfare branch specialist officers.
Ladder
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On board a ship, all "stairs" are called ladders, except for literal staircases aboard passenger ships. Most "stairs" on a ship are narrow and nearly vertical, hence the name. Believed to be from the ...
