Port Tack- Running Free

Sailing with the wind coming over the port bow

The small battery or hand operated radio transmitter designed to be kept on the bridge and carried into one of the lifeboats

To put up or list

Valves which allow excess CO2 gas to escape from the buoyancy tubes after the liferaft is fully inflated

Small, gravity loaded bars on each side of each Rottmer releasing hook that prevent the fall block's hook ring from accidentally falling out of the hook until the releasing hooks are opened

The cover is spread over portable frames set in sockets along each side of the lifeboat. It shelters the lifeboat occupants from the weather and its bright color makes the boat more visible to search planes

The food provided for each person on a lifeboat or liferaft

A boat powered by rowers

Signaling devices including hand-held red flares, red rocket parachute signals, floating orange smoke signals, and combination hand-held flares and smoke signals

The aft part of the boat's side; also the direction at a 45 degree angle aft of the beam

Large metal hooks at the end of the lifeboat which can be locked closed in the down position but instantly open when the lever in the boat is turned; they free both ends of the lifeboat from the falls at the same time

The control lever which opens the hooks from which the lifeboat hangs on the davits; turning it releases both ends of the lifeboat at the same instant

Any ship or plane used to rescue people who have abandoned ship

When seen from astern, the blades turn in a clockwise direction

The strap fitted under the liferaft used to turn a capsized raft right side up

A common type of lifeboat davit; davits on the TSSOM are this type

The system which releases both ends of the lifeboat at the same time

U-shaped metal brackets located on the gunwale used to hold the oar

A movable flat piece of wood or metal placed at the stern used to hold the oar

Sailing with the wind coming from the stern