A special crane used onboard of aids to navigation service vessels. A buoy-handling crane has a jib with fork-type end.

Frames mounted on the cable vessel side to deploy and recover cable buoys.

A floating object used as an aid to mariners to mark the navigable limits of channels, their fairways, sunken dangers, isolated rocks etc., or as reference point for navigation or for other purposes.

A group of crewmembers standing by in case of emergency in order to assist other teams in action if necessary.

Land-based authority conducting and co-ordinating search and rescue operations in a designated area.

A small tanker fitted with fuel pumps and a crane for hose handling, used for loading fuel oils into ship tanks.

A time charter agreement will stipulate the terms under which the bunkers on board will be delivered to the use of the charterers and the terms under which the bunkers remaining on board will be redelivered to owners.

Fuel receiving stations, usually at an upper deck level, port and starboard, furnished with valves, elbows, pressure gauges, filters and relief valves.

A davit-launched, motor-propelled light boat provided to perform man-overboard retrieval and raft marshalling duties.

The standard document required by Annex VI of MARPOL which contains information on fuel oil delivery: name of receiving vessel, port, date, data of a supplier, quantity and characteristics of fuel oil.

To load fuel into ship's fuel tanks for its own use as distinguished from loading it as cargo.

1. Fuel oil for the main propulsion machinery. 2. A compartment for the storage of fuel oil used by the ship’s machinery.

A berth, or bed, usually built in.

Fore-and-aft vertical plating directly above the upper edge of the ship side surrounding the exposed deck(s).

Vertical partition walls which subdivide the ship interior into watertight compartments. Bulkheads reduce the extent of seawater flooding in case of damage and provide additional stiffness to the hull girder.

Access doors or flood prevention doors. A wide variety of designs and configurations are available: side-hinged door, sliding door, upward rolling door, and top-hinged door.

The uppermost deck up to which the transverse watertight bulkheads and shell are carried.

A container designed for carrying free-flowing dry cargoes loaded through hatchways in the roof of the container and discharged through hatchways at one end of the container.

According to Significant Ships of 2006 EYLUL K is the double hull 20,000dwt Turkish bulk carrier designed by Delta Marine Co from Istanbul and built by Torgem Shipyard.

Usually hydraulic operated slewing or pivoting davits designed for launching and recovery of a fully-manned rescue boat against unfavourable conditions of trim of up to 10 degrees and a list of up to 20 degrees either way.