| A | B |
| hurtled | coming with a crash |
| skulking | lurking, keeping oneself concealed |
| helmsmen | persons who steer a vessel |
| bowsprit | a pole running out from a ship's bow |
| starboard | right side of ship |
| compass | an instrument showing the direction of magnetic north |
| headland | a point of high land jutting out to the sea |
| foam | froth or lather |
| shrouds | a set of ropes forming part of a ship's rigging |
| topmast | the mast next above the lower mast |
| broadside | the firing of all guns from one side of a ship |
| longboat | a sailing ship's largest boat |
| port | left side of ship |
| stern | back of ship |
| bow | front of ship |
| keel | a flat-bottomed vessel |
| cogs | projections on the edge of a wheel |
| bull kelp | a type of seaweed |
| precipitous | dangerously steep |
| hull | the body or frame of a ship |