An embayment in an ice front, often of a temporary nature, where ships can moor alongside and unload directly onto the ice shelf.
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ALONGSIDE
By the side of a ship or pier.
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LANDING STAGE
A platform attached to the shore for landing or embarking passengers or cargo. In some cases the outer end of the landing stage is floating. Ships can moor alongside larger landing stages.
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DOCK
A structure built along, or at an angle from, a navigable waterway so that vessels may lie alongside to receive or discharge cargo. Sometimes, the whole wharf is informally called a dock.
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BERTH
A sea room to be kept for safety around a vessel, rock, platform, etc., or the place assigned to a vessel when anchored or lying alongside a pier,etc.
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PARAVANE
1. A device stabilized by vanes that functions as an underwater glider and which is streamed from (usually) the bow of a vessel and is towed alongside the vessel so that the cable attaching it to the vessel cuts the moorings of submerged mines.
2. A towed underwater object with hydrofoils, of use in commercial and sport fishing, water sports, marine exploration, marine industry, and military operations, sometimes equipped with sensors and also of use in exerting a sideward holding force on a vessel. Also called a water kite.
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TIDAL QUAY
A quay in an open harbor or basin with sufficient depth alongside to enable ships lying alongside to remain afloat at any state of the tide.
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VERNIER
A short, auxiliary scale situated alongside the graduated scale of an instrument, by which fractional parts of the smallest division of the primary scale can be measured with greater accuracy by a factor of ten. If 10 graduations on a vernier equal 9 graduations on the micrometer drum of a sextant, when the zero on the vernier lies one-tenth of a graduation beyond zero on the micrometer drum, the first graduation beyond zero on the vernier coincides with a graduation on the micrometer drum. Likewise, when the zero on the vernier lies fivetenths of a graduation beyond zero on the micrometer drum, the fifth graduation beyond zero on the vernier coincides with a graduation on the micrometer drum.
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RAFTING
Securing vessels alongside each other.
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FREE ALONGSIDE SHIP
FAS - a Term of Sale which means the seller ful lls his obligation to deliver when the goods have been placed alongside the vessel on the quay or in lighters at the named port of shipment. This means that the buyer has to bear all costs and risks of loss of or damage to the goods from that moment.
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DOUBLE BANKING
Two vessels moored alongside each other on a certain berth.
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