Professional English in Navigation. Учебное пособие для СПО

Breaking strength. Ultimate or actual: The load require to pull a wire, strand or rope to destruction; Aggregate: The sum of the individual breaking loads of all the wires in a strand or rope.

Breast line. A mooring line from ship to pier or ship to ship, perpendicular to the fore and aft axis or at right angle to the ship.

Bridle. A two-legged towing rig of wire or chain attached to towing pads or a set of bitts on the tow; at the apex is a flounder plate or ring, dependent upon whether a chain bridle is being used (The two legs and the imaginary line between tile points of attachment should form an equilateral triangle).

Bullnose. A closed chock in the stem of a ship.

Bulwark. Section of a ship’s side, continued above the main deck, as protection against heavy weather.

Capstan. A revolving device with a vertical axis, used for heaving in mooring lines (mooring and warping).

Catenary. The curve of a rope suspended between two points Chafing chain. A length of chain used to reduce chafing or wearing.

Chain. A connected, flexible series of links, used for binding, connecting or other purposes Chain bridle. A chain used in a bridle rig.

Chain stopper. A device used to secure chain, thereby relieving the strain on the windlass; also used for securing the anchor in the housed position in the hawser pipe.

Check. To slack slowly while keeping a strain on the line without parting the line.

Chock. A heavy smooth-surfaced fitting usually located near the edge of the weather deck through which wire ropes or fiber rope hawsers may be led.

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Eye splice. A loop formed at the end of a rope by joining the end of the rope with the body of the rope (Different techniques and tools are used to make eye splices depending on the type of rope construction, i.e. threestrand, plaited, or doublebraided).

Fairlead. Metal fittings which lead lines in the direction desired.

Fast. To secure, as to make fast a line to a cleat.

Fathom. A unit of length equal to six feet.

Grapnel. A small anchor with several claws used to recover objects in the water Gypsy head. The drum of the winch, around which a rope is turned, for heaving in Hawser. A heavy line or wire rope; any line over five inches in circumference

Heave around.

Jackstay. Horizontal wire or line rigged for a special purse to which articles such as seabags, tackles, cods of lines and small-cordage ropes can be lashed or hung Knot. Nautical speed equal to 1.15 statute miles per hour.

Lay length. The distance, measured parallel to the axis of the rope (or strand), in which a strand (or wire) makes one complete helical convolution about the core (or center).

Line. A term frequently applied to a natural or synthetic fiber rope, especially if it moves or is used to transmit a force.

Messenger. A light line used for hauling over a heavier rope or hawser.

Monkey Fist. Weighted knot in the end of a heaving line.

Pay out. To slack off on a line.

Pendant. A single wire or chain that leads from the apex of a towing bridle to the tow line Preventer. Any line, wire or chain whose general purpose is to act as a safeguard in case some thing else carries away.

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Roller chock. A chock fitted with a roller.

Rope. A group of strands of fibers or wires, twisted or braided together, to form a single pliable member.

Roust. To rout, as from a place.

Safety shackle. A connecting device similar to the common shackle except that a hole is drilled in the bolt to accommodate a cotter key for locking the nut on the bolt.

Shackle (anchor, chain). U-shape metal fittings, closed at the open end with a pin; used to connect wire and chain to padeyes, etc. (The anchor-type has an exaggerated bow; the chain-type has parallel sides).

Shot. A standard length of chain, nominally 15 fathoms (90 feet).

Slip. The space between adjacent piers.

Spliced eye. A synthetic rope termination formed by unlaying the rope and intertwining the strands to form an eye.

Spring line. A mooring or docking line leading at an angle less than 45 degrees with the fore and aft lines of the ship; used to turn a ship or prevent it from moving ahead or astern Stern line. A mooring line leading from the stern of a ship.

Stopper. A short length of rope secured at one end and used to stop it from running Swage. To connect, splice or terminate wire rope by use of steel fittings, installed under extremely high pressure.

SWL (safe working load). The load that a rope or working gear may carry economically and safely.

Synthetic tow line. A line or pendant used for towing; made from any of a group of synthetic long fibers.

Thimble. A grooved metal component fitted snugly into an eye splice.

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Turnbuckle. A metal appliance consisting of a threaded link bolt and a pair of opposite-threaded screws, capable of being set up or slacked off; used for setting up standing rigging or stoppers Veer. To pay out chain or line.

Warping (winch). Moving a ship (normally sideways) by hauling on a line attached to some fixed object such as a buoy or dock (A warping winch is similar to a capstan except that the warping head or heads are mounted on a horizontal shaft).

Wire rope. Rope made of wire strands twisted together, as distinguished from the more common and weaker fiber rope.

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LITERATURE

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8.Международные правила предупреждения столкновений судов в море. — Москва : РосКонсульт, 1972.

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ния навигации и океанографии Министерства обороны России, 2000.

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