DICTIONARY OF

Report List 278 Reversal
Report List. Document describing ship and cargo, list of passengers and stores, together
with particulars of any navigational danger sighted during voyage. Signed, in duplicate, by
Master and presented to Customs authorities when entering inwards.
Reprize.* Vessel recaptured after being taken by enemy. If i recapture within 24 hours of
capture was returned to former 1 owner; if after 24 hours of capture, was property of ship
recapturing.
Request Note. Application to Customs authorities for permission to remove goods liable to
duty.
Resaca. Alternative name for 'Underset'.
Reserve Buoyancy. That part of a vessel's buoyancy that keeps her watertight deck above
the level of the load line.
Respondentia. Contract in which a master of a ship pledges freight and cargo as security for
a loan of money necessary to enable vessel to reach her discharging port.
Respondentia Bond. Legal document whereby Master pledges freight and cargo when
raising respondentia.
Restraint of Princes. Commands of a sovereign state, whether friendly, neutral or enemy -
that result in the non-fulfilment of an intended voyage.
Restrictive Endorsement. Endorsement of a bill of exchange so that its negotiation is
limited and circumscribed.
Retardation. A slowing up. A lateness of arrival. Opposite to acceleration.
Retard of Tide. Interval between conjunction, or opposition, of Sun and Moon and the
appearance of the resultant spring tide at a place.
Retentivity. The power of steel or iron to retain magnetism. This power is more or less
proportional to their resistance to being magnetised.
Retrograde Motion. Movement of a heavenly body in a direction opposite to that of Earth's
rotation and Sun's annual revolution; the Right Ascension and celestial longitude of the body
will then decrease. A few solar system bodies - comets and some satellites - have this
motion. Retrograde movement of a planet is an optical illusion arising from Earth's orbital
movement.
Return List. D.T.I, form, Eng. 2 or Eng. 2a, for reporting particulars of members of crew
engaged after Articles have been opened.
Return Port. The proper return port of a discharged seaman.
Return Tubes. Those fire tubes, in a marine boiler, that return the fuel gases from the
combustion chamber to the front of boiler.
Revenue Cutter. Small sailing vessel, cutter rigged and armed, manned by Royal Navy and
used for prevention of smuggling and for maintaining order on the fishing grounds.
Superseded by mechanically-propelled fishery protection vessels.
Reversal. Difference in directions of surface and upper winds when exceeding 90°.