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1. (ship's boat) A small, light boat propelled by oars or a sail, used as a tender to larger vessels during the Age of Sail. 2. (full-rigged pinnace) A small "race built" galleon, square-rigged with either two or three masts. 3. In modern usage, any small boat other than a launch or lifeboat associated with a larger vessel. pintle
Boat Type Class Marking Marking description Mirror: Red Italic Capital letter M on a crescent section of a circle Redwing: 18. White Number on a dark red sail Rhodes 19: An "R" surrounded by a "19", arranged to fit the contour of a circle Sonar: Six horizontal bars of progressively larger thicknesses, from top to bottom
The anchor line, rope, or cable connecting the anchor chain to the vessel. anchor sentinel. Also kellet. A separate weight on a separate line that is loosely attached to the anchor rode so that it can slide down it easily. It is made fast at a distance slightly longer than the draft of the boat.
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
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The ship's badge of the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne.This is the current (post 1975) version of the badge. An item of naval heraldry in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is referred to as a ship's badge, although the incorrect ship's crest is sometimes used. [2]
Shipping symbols [2] from ISO standard 780 "Pictorial marking for handling of goods" [3] or ASTM D5445 "Standard Practice for Pictorial Markings for Handling of Goods" [4] which depict shipping boxes as squares with rounded corners: "Fragile": the silhouette of a broken wine glass "This end up": a horizontal line with two arrows pointing up