Nautical Nomenclature Flashcards
What is a bulkhead?
- Wall-like structures
- Enclose compartment
- Provide structural strength and watertight integrity
Deck
Surface you walk on
Provider structural strength and watertight integrity
Bow
- Front end of the ship
- Provides a streamlined structure to easily move through the water
Stern
- Back end of a vessel
- Name of vessel is located on stern
Forcastle
- Forward most weather deck
- Area for handling lines, taking soundings, and anchoring
- Additional lookout position
Superstructure
-All Fittings, compartments, and structures that extend above the hull of a vessel
MAST
Upright Spar or post
- Supports rigging for flags and pennants
- Provides mounts for antennas
Fantail
- Main deck area at the stern of a ship
- Handling lines, taking soundings, towing evolations
- Additional lookout position
Deck Fittings
-Standard devices found on ships, small boats, docks, and piers. Their uses include fairleading (redirectiing), Safety, and securing lines.
Stanchion
- Upright post
- Support for lifelines or handrails
CLEAT
- Metal deck fitting with horns
- For Securing lines
- Found on ships, small boars, and piers
Ground Tackle
- Anchoring equipment
- Located on the Foc’sle
Capstan
- Rotating drum for working lines
- Fore and Aft
- Used to move the ship along side the pier
Chocks
- Steel deck members that fairlead (redirect) the line
- Reduce chafing and friction
- Three different types
Open Chock, Closed chock, Roller chock (on bearings and moves with the line. Found on Buoy Tenders)
Bitts
- Cylindrically shaped steel deck fittings
- Arranged in pairs
- Fore or aft of chocks
- Used to secure lines
BOllard
Large light bulb shaped fitting
-For securing mooring lines to a pier.
Transverse Frames
- Ribs of the vessel
- Port side to starboard Side
- Give the hull its strength and shape
Longitudinal frames
- Run parallel to the centerline from the bow to the stern
- Provider strength and shape to a vessel’s hull
STEM
- Forward most point of the vessels hull
- Where port and starboard meet
Hatch
- Square shaped
- Used to access a space through the deck
- Watertight and airtight
Door
Passage through bulkheads
-Can be watertight or non-watertight
SCuttle
- Small round openings
- Access a compartment without opening a hatch.
Ladder
-Stairway aboard a ship
BROW
- Portable gangplank leading from a ship to a pier
- Personnel access
Jackstaff
Upright post located on the BOW
-UNION JACK flown when moored or at anchor
Flagstaff
- Upright post aft
- NATIONAL ENSIGN flies when moored or at anchor
What is PORT SIDE?
LEFT SIDE OF VESSEL WHEN YOU ARE ON THAT VESSEL FACING THE BOW
STARBOARD SIDE?
RIGHT SIDE OF VESSEL WHEN YOU ARE ON THAT VESSEL FACING THE BOW
Port Bow?
Left side of the bow if you are on the vessel facing forward
Starboard Bow
Right side of the bow, if you are on the vessel facing forward
Port Quarter
-Left REAR side of the vessel if you are on the vessel forward
Starboard Quarter
Right rear side of vessel if you are on the vessel facing forward
Waterline?
Where the ship’s hull touches the water
Draft
The depth of water from waterline to the vessels keel (lowest point)
Freeboard?
The height of the vessel’s hull from the waterline to the main deck
Beam?
The greatest width of a vessel.
