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What is A Sailor?
A person that works on a boat that assists in their operation or maintenance.
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What is crows nest?
A platform that is high on a ships mast so you can see other boats or ships
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What is the starboard?
The side of a ship that is on the right when it is facing foward.
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What is the la poupe?
The French word for poop deck.
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What is a seaman?
A person who works on a ship but is below the rank of a sailor.
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What is a bulk head?
A dividing wall between compartments in a ship.
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what is the forecastle?
The forward part of a ship below the deck.
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What is the rear of a ship?
The poop deck is located here.
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What is a first officer?
The first mate on a ship.
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What is a stern?
The rear or aft part of a ship.
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What is a keel?
The longitudinal structure along the center line at the bottom of a vessel's hull.
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It is the french word for stern?
They call it the poop deck because...
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What is a able bodied seaman?
A seaman qualified to do all jobs
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What is a deck?
A structure of planks extending across a ship.
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What is the gunwale?
The upper edge of the side of a ship.
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It is 106 feet.(32 meters)
The Titanic's poop deck was this big.
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What is merchant marine?
A country's shipping that is involved in commerce and trade as opposed to military activity.
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What is the hull?
The main body of a ship.
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What is a sextant?
An instrument used to determine the position of a ship by measuring the positions of the sun and the stars.
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What is the puppis?
The Latin word for poop deck is...
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