Index to Volume Seven - The People - Dock Family Trees - Glossary . . .

Gangplank - A movable bridge used in boarding or leaving a ship at a pier; also known as a "brow". [043]

Graving dock - A narrow basin, usually made of earthen berms and concrete, closed by gates or by a caisson, into which a vessel may be floated and the water pumped out, leaving the vessel supported on blocks; the classic form of drydock. [043]

Ground - The bed of the sea. [043]

Grounding - When a ship (while afloat) touches the bed of the sea, or goes "aground". [043]

Gunwale - Upper edge of the hull. [043]

Hatchway, hatch - A covered opening in a ship's deck through which cargo can be loaded or access made to a lower deck; the cover to the opening is called a hatch. [043]

Hawsepipe, hawsehole or hawse - The shaft or hole in the side of a vessel's bow through which the anchor chain passes. [043]

Jetty - A man-made wall in open water rising several feet above high tide made of rubble and rocks used to create a breakwater, shelter, erosion control, a channel, or other such purpose. [043]

Keel - The central structural basis of the hull. [043]

Kentledge Weights - (often scrap or pig iron) used as permanent high-density ballast. [043]

Lagan - Debris that has sunk to the seabed. [043]

Lee side - The side of a ship sheltered from the wind. [043]

Leeward - In the direction that the wind is blowing towards. [043]

Leeway - The amount that a ship is blown leeward by the wind. [043]

Loaded to the gunwales - Literally, having cargo loaded as high as the ship's rail; also means extremely drunk. [043]