Ballasting - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Ballast. Heavy matter, as water, sand, stone, or iron, carried in the bottom of a ship to increase its weight and prevent its being readily over-set, a vessel being said to be 'in ballast' when she sails without a cargo. For penalty for taking from shore of harbour, etc., see (English) Harbours Act, 1814 (54 Geo. 3, c. 15); and for penalty for throwing it into harbour or dock, (English) Harbours, Docks, and Piers Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 27), s. 73; and see (English) Weights and Measurers Act, 1936....
Ballasting
That which is used for steadying anything ballast...
Engaged in discharging
Engaged in discharging, means 'A lighter or craft is 'engaged in discharging' ballast or goods within an exemption from dock dues, if she goes to the place of discharge in the docks with the real intention of discharging there, although. From the place getting too full to take the ballast or goods the vessel has to depart without making any discharge (Stroud's Judicial Dictionary, 5th Edn., p. 847)....
Kentlage
Kentlage, a permanent ballast, consisting usually of pig-iron, cast in a particular form, or other weighty material, which, on account of its superior cleanliness, and the small space occupied by it, is frequently preferred to ordinary ballast, Abbott on Shipping, 5....
Ballast
Any heavy substance as stone iron etc put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing...
Ballastage
A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor...
Fin keel
A projection downward from the keel of a yacht resembling in shape the fin of a fish though often with a cigar shaped bulb of lead at the bottom and generally made of metal Its use is to ballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind and to make the least possible leeway by offering great resistance to lateral motion through the water...
Guide rope
A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length used to preserve altitude automatically by variation of the length dragging on the ground without loss of ballast or gas...
Kentledge
Pigs of iron used for ballast...
Knockabout
A small yacht generally from fifteen to twenty five feet in length having a mainsail and a jib a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard The original type was twenty one feet in length The next larger type is called a raceabout...
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