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| Cabin | A room or living compartment for passengers or crew. |
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| Cabin Sole | The floor or bottom surface of the enclosed space under the deck of a boat |
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| Cable Ship | A specially constructed ship for the laying and repairing of telegraph and telephone cables across channels, seas, lakes, and oceans. |
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| Caboose | Old term for the galley of a vessel situated normally on the deck and not between decks. |
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| Cabotage | The carriage of goods or passengers for remuneration taken on at one point and discharged at another point within the territory of the same country. |
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| Call Sign | A group of letters and numbers used for identification during radio transmission. |
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| Calm | Little or no wind and flat seas |
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| Calving | Breaking away of a mass of ice from a glacier or iceberg. |
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| Cam Cleat | A mechanical cleat used to hold a line automatically. It uses two spring loaded cams that come together to clamp their teeth on the line, which is place between them. |
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| Camber | The curvature of an object such as a sail, keel or deck. Usually used when referring to an objects aerodynamic or hydrodynamic properties. The weather decks of ships are rounded up or arched in an athwartship direction for the purpose of draining any water that may fall on them to the sides of the ship where it can be led overboard through scuppers; the camber is the crown or arch of a weather deck. |
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| Camel | Hollow vessel of iron, steel or wood, that is filled with water and sunk under a vessel. When water is pumped out, the buoyancy of the camel lifts the ship. Very valuable aid to salvage operations. |
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| Can or Can Buoy | A cylindrical navigation buoy painted green and having an odd number used in the United States as a navigational aid. At night they may have a green light. |
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| Canoe Stern | A pointed stern, such as those on a canoe. |
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| Cant | (1) A term signifying an inclination of an object from a perpendicular; to turn anything so that it does not stand perpendicularly or square to an object. (2) Those timbers in a ship near the bow or stern which are sharply angled from the keel. (3) The operation of turning a ship's head one way or another. |
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| Cant Frames | Angled frames in the extreme forward or aft ends of a ship which form the sharp ends of the vessel's hull. |
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