INNER JIB-STAY. A temporary stay lashed half-way in, on the jib-boom; it sets up with lashing-eyes at the fore top-mast head.
INNER POST, or Inner Stern-post. The post on which the transoms are seated. An oak timber brought on and fayed at the fore-edge of the main-post, and generally continued as high as the wing-transom, to seat the other transoms upon, and strengthen the whole. (See [Stern-post].) It applies to the main stern-post in steamers, the screw acting between it and the outer, on which the rudder is hung.
INNINGS. Coast lands recovered from the sea by draining.
INNIS. An old Gaelic term for an island, still in use.
INQUIRY, Court of, is assembled by order of a commanding officer to inquire into matters of an intricate nature, for his information; but has no power of adjudication whatever: but too like the Star Chamber.
INSHORE. The opposite of offing.—Inshore tack. Standing in from sea-ward when working to windward on a coast.
INSHORED. Come to shore.
INSIDE MUSTER-PAPER. A description of paper supplied from the dockyards, ruled and headed, for making ships' books.
INSPECTION. The mode of working up the dead-reckoning by computed nautical tables. Also, a general examination or survey of all parts of a sea or land force by an officer of competent authority.
INSTALMENT. A partial payment.