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100 relations: Able seaman, Anchor, Angle of loll, Automatic radar plotting aid, Billy Bones, Black Pearl, Boatswain, Captain Flint, Cargo, Celestial navigation, Chakotay, Commonwealth of Nations, Compass, Containerization, Deck department, Distress signal, Draft (hull), Electronic navigation, Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station, Essex (whaleship), Firefly (TV series), Fletcher Christian, Fresh Beat Band of Spies, George Lowther (pirate), Gilligan (Gilligan's Island), Great Lakes Maritime Academy, Gyrocompass, Hector Barbossa, Helmsman, Henry Tingle Wilde, Intermodal freight transport, International Code of Signals, International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, John Biscoe, John Paul Jones, Joshamee Gibbs, Kira Nerys, Licensed mariner, Lifeboat (shipboard), List of Firefly characters, List of Pirates of the Caribbean characters, Lookout, Man overboard, Maritime transport, MARPOL 73/78, Master (naval), Merchant Navy (United Kingdom), Merchant vessel, Meteorology, Moby-Dick, ..., Mooring (watercraft), Morse code, Multilingualism, Nautical chart, Nautical publications, Navigation, Notice to mariners, Number One (Star Trek), Ocean current, Officer of the deck, Owen Chase, Passenger ship, Peter Pan, Quartermaster, Queen Anne's Revenge, Radar, Rescue craft, RMS Titanic, Robert Louis Stevenson, S. S. Minnow, Sailing ballast, Sailing Directions, Sea captain, Seafarer's professions and ranks, Search and rescue transponder, Second mate, Second-in-command, SOLAS Convention, Spock, Stability conditions, Star Trek, Starbucks, Stevedore, Strength of ships, Survival suit, T'Pol, Third mate, Tide, Tide table, Treasure Island, Turning radius, United States Coast Guard, United States Coast Guard Academy, United States Merchant Marine, United States Merchant Marine Academy, United States Naval Academy, Watchstanding, Weight distribution, William McMaster Murdoch, William Riker. Expand index (50 more) »
Able seaman
An able seaman (AB) is a naval rating of the deck department of a merchant ship with more than two years' experience at sea and considered "well acquainted with his duty".
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Anchor
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current.
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Angle of loll
Angle of loll is the state of a ship that is unstable when upright (i.e. has a negative metacentric height) and therefore takes on an angle of heel to either port or starboard.
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Automatic radar plotting aid
A marine radar with automatic radar plotting aid (ARPA) capability can create tracks using radar contacts.
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Billy Bones
Billy Bones is a fictional character, in the first section of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island.
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Black Pearl
The Black Pearl is a fictional ship in the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' film series.
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Boatswain
A boatswain (formerly and dialectally also), bo's'n, bos'n, or bosun, also known as a Petty Officer or a qualified member of the deck department, is the seniormost rate of the deck department and is responsible for the components of a ship's hull.
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Captain Flint
Captain J. Flint is a fictional 18th-century pirate captain who features in a number of novels, television series, and films.
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Cargo
In economics, cargo or freight are goods or produce being conveyed – generally for commercial gain – by water, air or land.
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Celestial navigation
Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is the ancient and modern practice of position fixing that enables a navigator to transition through a space without having to rely on estimated calculations, or dead reckoning, to know their position.
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Chakotay
Chakotay is a fictional character who appears in each of the seven seasons of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager.
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Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.
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Compass
A compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic cardinal directions (or points).
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Containerization
Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers and ISO containers).
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Deck department
The deck department is an organisational team on board naval and merchant ships.
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Distress signal
A distress signal or distress call is an internationally recognized means for obtaining help.
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Draft (hull)
The draft or draught of a ship's hull is the vertical distance between the waterline and the bottom of the hull (keel), with the thickness of the hull included; in the case of not being included the draft outline would be obtained.
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Electronic navigation
Electronic navigation are forms of navigation that ships, land vehicles, and people can use, which rely on technology powered by electricity.
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Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station
An emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station is a distress radiobeacon, a tracking transmitter that is triggered during an accident.
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Essex (whaleship)
Essex was an American whaler from Nantucket, Massachusetts, launched in 1799.
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Firefly (TV series)
Firefly is an American space Western drama television series which ran from 2002–2003, created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label.
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Fletcher Christian
Fletcher Christian (25 September 1764 – 20 September 1793) was master's mate on board HMS ''Bounty'' during Lieutenant William Bligh's voyage to Tahiti during 1787–1789 for breadfruit plants.
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Fresh Beat Band of Spies
Fresh Beat Band of Spies is an American-Canadian animated children's television series originally airing on Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. It was created by Nadine Van der Velde and Scott Kraft.
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George Lowther (pirate)
George Lowther (died 1723) was an 18th-century English pirate who, although little is known of his life, was active in the Caribbean and Atlantic.
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Gilligan (Gilligan's Island)
Gilligan is a fictional character played by Bob Denver on the 1960s TV show Gilligan's Island and its many sequels.
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Great Lakes Maritime Academy
The Great Lakes Maritime Academy at Northwestern Michigan College is located on West Grand Traverse Bay in Traverse City, Michigan.
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Gyrocompass
A gyrocompass is a type of non-magnetic compass which is based on a fast-spinning disc and the rotation of the Earth (or another planetary body if used elsewhere in the universe) to find geographical direction automatically.
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Hector Barbossa
Captain Hector Barbossa is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, portrayed by Australian actor Geoffrey Rush.
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Helmsman
A helmsman or helm is a person who steers a ship, sailboat, submarine, other type of maritime vessel, or spacecraft.
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Henry Tingle Wilde
Henry Tingle Wilde (21 September 1872 in Walton, Liverpool, England – 15 April 1912) was the chief officer of the.
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Intermodal freight transport
Intermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation (e.g., rail, ship, and truck), without any handling of the freight itself when changing modes.
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International Code of Signals
The International Code of Signals (ICS) is an international system of signals and codes for use by vessels to communicate important messages regarding safety of navigation and related matters.
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International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972 (COLREGs) are published by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and set out, among other things, the "rules of the road" or navigation rules to be followed by ships and other vessels at sea to prevent collisions between two or more vessels.
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John Biscoe
John Biscoe (28 June 1794 – 1843) was an English mariner and explorer who commanded the first expedition known to have sighted the areas named Enderby Land and Graham Land along the coast of Antarctica.
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John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones (born John Paul; July 6, 1747 July 18, 1792) was the United States' first well-known naval commander in the American Revolutionary War.
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Joshamee Gibbs
Joshamee Gibbs (often referred to as Mr. Gibbs, Master Gibbs, or simply Gibbs) is a fictional character in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
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Kira Nerys
Kira Nerys is a fictional character in the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–99).
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Licensed mariner
A licensed mariner is a person who holds a license issued by one or more countries to hold senior positions aboard ships, boats, and similar vessels.
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Lifeboat (shipboard)
A lifeboat is a small, rigid or inflatable boat carried for emergency evacuation in the event of a disaster aboard a ship.
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List of Firefly characters
This page lists characters from the television series Firefly.
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List of Pirates of the Caribbean characters
This is a list of characters appearing in the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' film series.
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Lookout
A lookout or look-out is a person on a ship in charge of the observation of the sea for hazards, other ships, land, etc.
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Man overboard
"Man overboard!" is an exclamation given aboard a vessel to indicate that a member of the crew has fallen off of the ship into the water and is in need of immediate rescue.
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Maritime transport
Maritime transport is the transport of people (passengers) or goods (cargo) by water.
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MARPOL 73/78
The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL 73/78, MARPOL is short for marine pollution and 73/78 short for the years 1973 and 1978) is one of the most important international marine environmental conventions.
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Master (naval)
The master, or sailing master, was a historical rank for a naval officer trained in and responsible for the navigation of a sailing vessel.
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Merchant Navy (United Kingdom)
The Merchant Navy is the maritime register of the United Kingdom, and comprises the seagoing commercial interests of UK-registered ships and their crews.
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Merchant vessel
A merchant vessel, trading vessel or merchantman is a boat or ship that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire.
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Meteorology
Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences which includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics, with a major focus on weather forecasting.
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Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville.
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Mooring (watercraft)
A mooring refers to any permanent structure to which a vessel may be secured.
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Morse code
Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment.
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Multilingualism
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers.
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Nautical chart
A nautical chart is a graphic representation of a maritime area and adjacent coastal regions.
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Nautical publications
Nautical publications is a technical term used in maritime circles describing a set of publications, generally published by national governments, for use in safe navigation of ships, boats, and similar vessels.
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Navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.
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Notice to mariners
A notice to mariners (NTM) advises mariners of important matters affecting navigational safety, including new hydrographic information, changes in channels and aids to navigation, and other important data.
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Number One (Star Trek)
Number One is a fictional character who, in "The Cage", the original pilot episode of the science-fiction television series Star Trek, was the unnamed intellectual, problem-solving second-in-command serving under Captain Christopher Pike.
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Ocean current
An ocean current is a seasonal directed movement of sea water generated by forces acting upon this mean flow, such as wind, the Coriolis effect, breaking waves, cabbing, temperature and salinity differences, while tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon.
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Officer of the deck
Officer of the deck (OOD) is a position in the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps that confers certain authority and responsibility.
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Owen Chase
Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 – March 7, 1869) was First Mate of the whaler ''Essex'', which a sperm whale rammed and sank on 20 November 1820.
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Passenger ship
A passenger ship is a merchant ship whose primary function is to carry passengers on the sea.
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Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie.
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Quartermaster
Quartermaster is a military or naval term, the meaning of which depends on the country and service.
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Queen Anne's Revenge
Queen Anne's Revenge was an early-18th-century frigate, most famously used as a flagship by the pirate Blackbeard (Edward Teach).
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Radar
Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects.
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Rescue craft
A rescue craft is a boat, ship or aircraft used in rescuing.
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RMS Titanic
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer.
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S. S. Minnow
The S. S. Minnow is a fictional charter boat on the hit 1960s television sitcom Gilligan's Island.
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Sailing ballast
Ballast is used in sailboats to provide moment to resist the lateral forces on the sail.
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Sailing Directions
Sailing Directions are written directions, describing the routes to be taken by boats and ships during coastal navigation, and port approaches.
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Sea captain
A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner in ultimate command of the merchant vessel.
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Seafarer's professions and ranks
Seafaring is a tradition which encompasses a variety of professions and ranks.
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Search and rescue transponder
A search and rescue transponder (SART) is a self-contained, waterproof transponder intended for emergency use at sea.
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Second mate
A second mate (2nd Mate) or second officer (2/O) is a licensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship holding a Second Mates Certificate of Competency, which is issued by the administration.
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Second-in-command
The second-in-command (2i/c or 2IC) is the deputy commander of any British Army or Royal Marines unit, from battalion or regiment downwards.
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SOLAS Convention
The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) is an international maritime treaty which sets minimum safety standards in the construction, equipment and operation of merchant ships.
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Spock
Spock is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise.
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Stability conditions
The Stability conditions of watercraft are the various standard loading configurations to which a ship, boat, or offshore platform may be subjected.
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Star Trek
Star Trek is an American media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.
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Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an American coffee company and coffeehouse chain.
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Stevedore
A stevedore, longshoreman, or dockworker is a waterfront manual laborer who is involved in loading and unloading ships, trucks, trains or airplanes.
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Strength of ships
The strength of ships is a topic of key interest to naval architects and shipbuilders.
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Survival suit
An immersion suit, or survival suit (or more specifically an immersion survival suit) is a special type of waterproof dry suit that protects the wearer from hypothermia from immersion in cold water, after abandoning a sinking or capsized vessel, especially in the open ocean.
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T'Pol
Commander T'Pol, born 2088, is a fictional character portrayed by Jolene Blalock in Star Trek: Enterprise.
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Third mate
A third mate (3/M) or third officer is a licensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship.
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Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of Earth.
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Tide table
Tide tables, sometimes called tide charts, are used for tidal prediction and show the daily times and levels of high and low tides, usually for a particular location.
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Treasure Island
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold".
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Turning radius
The turning radius or turning circle of a vehicle is the radius (or, depending on usage, diameter) of the smallest circular turn (i.e. U-turn) that the vehicle is capable of making.
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United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's seven uniformed services.
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United States Coast Guard Academy
The United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) is the service academy of the United States Coast Guard, founded in 1876 and located in New London, Connecticut.
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United States Merchant Marine
The United States Merchant Marine refers to either United States civilian mariners, or to U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.
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United States Merchant Marine Academy
The United States Merchant Marine Academy (also known as USMMA or Kings Point) is one of the five United States service academies, located in Kings Point, New York.
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United States Naval Academy
The United States Naval Academy (also known as USNA, Annapolis, or simply Navy) is a four-year coeducational federal service academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
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Watchstanding
Watchstanding, or watchkeeping, in nautical terms concerns the division of qualified personnel to operate a ship continuously.
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Weight distribution
Weight distribution is the apportioning of weight within a vehicle, especially cars, airplanes, and trains.
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William McMaster Murdoch
William McMaster Murdoch (28 February 1873 – 15 April 1912) was a Scottish sailor who served as First Officer aboard the.
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William Riker
William Thomas "Will" Riker, played by Jonathan Frakes, is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe appearing primarily as a main character in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_mate
