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Due to the influences of wind

and sea the vessel can make
three different rotating motions
and three different linear motions.

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When her starboard and port sides
rise and fall with the waves,
the vessel is rolling.
When her stem and stern rise and fall with the waves,
the vessel is pitching.
Vessel rolling
and
pitching
Heavily.
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When her bow is pushed to starboard
and then to port, the vessel is yawing.
When the whole ship rises and falls
back into a trough, she is heaving.
When the ship is pushed forward
by the waves and sinks back
into a trough, she is surging.
When the whole ship moves bodily to
starboard and then to port,
she is swaying.
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International Maritime Language Programme – IMLP

C P.C. van Kluijven

The IMLP is an IMO-standard.