Fateful Voyage
Glossary & Nautical Dictionary
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- unballast
- TFD: To free from
ballast; to discharge ballast from.
- B: To discharge the ballast out of a ship.
- unbend
- B: to take the
sails off from their
yards and
stays. To cast loose the
anchor from the
cable.
To untie two ropes.
- unbit
- B: To remove the turns of a
cable from off the
bits.
- under bare poles
- F: the situation of a ship at sea when all her
sails are
furled, particularly in a tempest.
- under courses
- Signifies the
foresail,
mainsail, and
mizen are set
- under foot
- B: is expressed of an
anchor that is directly under the ship.
- under sail
- F: the state of a ship when she is loosened from her
moorings, and under the government of her
sails and
rudder.
- under the lee
- TFD: to the
leeward; as, under the lee of the land.
- under the rose
- TFD: in secret; privately; in a manner that forbids disclosure;
- the rose being among the ancients the symbol of secrecy, and hung up at entertainments
as a token that nothing there said was to be divulged.
- under way
- W: moving through the water; not anchored, moored, aground, or beached
- unmoor
- TFD: To release (a ship) from all but one
anchor.
- F: is to reduce a ship to the state of riding by a single anchor and
cable, after she has been
moored or fastened by two or more cables.
- unreeve
- TFD: to withdraw (a rope) from a
block,
thimble, etc.
- F: the act of withdrawing or taking out a rope from any channel through which it had formerly
passed; as in a block, thimble,
deadeye, &c.
- unrig
- TFD: to strip (a vessel) of
standing and
running rigging
- unship
- W: To remove an oar or
mast from its normal position
- TFD: To remove (a piece of gear) from its proper place; detach
- upper deck
- F: the highest of those
decks which are continued throughout the whole of a ship of war, or
merchantman, without any interruption, of steps or irregular ascents.
- upper works
- TFD: the parts of a vessel above the waterline when fully laden
- F: a general name given to all that part of a ship which is above the surface of the water when
she is properly balanced for a sea voyage
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