Transport-Ship is generally used to conduct troops from one place to another.
Weatherly-Ship. See Weatherly Ship.
In the different kinds of ships, referred to above, and distinguished from each other by their size or figure, we have only considered those which are most common in European nations, where the marine art has received the greatest improvements. So far is apparently consistent with the views of utility. To give a circumstantial account of the various species of ships employed in different nations, besides being an almost endless task, would be of little service, except to gratify an useless curiosity. See Vessel.
To Ship, is either used actively, as, to embark any person, or put any thing aboard-ship; or passively, to receive any thing into a ship; as, we shipped a heavy sea at three o’clock in the morning.
To Ship, also implies to fix any thing in its place; as, to ship the oars, i. e. to fix them in their row-locks. To ship the swivel-guns, is to fix them in their sockets, &c.
Ship-Shape, according to the fashion of a ship, or in the manner of an expert sailor; as, the mast is not rigged ship-shape; trim your sails ship-shape.
SHIPPING, a multitude of vessels. The harbour is crouded with shipping.
SHOAL, a term synonimous with shallow. See that article.
SHOE of the anchor, soulier, a small block of wood, convex on the back, and having a small hole, sufficient to contain the point of the anchor-fluke, on the fore side. It is used to prevent the anchor from tearing or wounding the planks on the ship’s bow, when ascending or descending; for which purpose the shoe slides up and down along the bow, between the fluke of the anchor and the planks, as being press’d close to the latter by the weight of the former.
To Shoe an anchor, brider, is to cover the flukes with a broad triangular piece of plank, whose area or superficies is much larger than that of the flukes. It is intended to give the anchor a stronger and surer hold of the bottom in very soft and oozy ground.