as declared illegal.

SHIP-OWNER. A person who has a right of property in a ship. The interest
of part-owners is quite distinct, so that one cannot dispose of the
share of the other, or effect any insurance for him, without special
authority.

SHIPPER. He who embarks goods; also mentioned in some of our statutes as
the master of a ship. (_See_ SKIPPER.)

SHIPPING AFFAIRS. All business of a maritime bearing.

SHIPPING GOODS. Receiving and stowing them on board.

SHIPPING GREEN SEAS. When heavy seas tumble over the gunwale either to
windward or leeward; sometimes resulting from bad steerage and
seamanship, or over-pressing the vessel.

SHIPPING MANIFEST. _See_ MANIFEST.

SHIPPING MASTERS. Persons officially appointed and licensed to attend to
the entering and discharging of merchant seamen.

SHIP-PROPELLER. _See_ SCREW-PROPELLER.

SHIP RAISED UPON. One of which the upper works have been heightened by
additional timbers. About the year 1816 several creditable corvettes of
600 tons were constructed; after three had been tried, the mistaken
order was issued to make them into frigates. Hence the term donkey and
jackass frigates, _Athol_ and _Niemen_ to wit.

SHIP'S BOOKS. The roll of the crew, containing every particular in
relation to entry, former ships, &c.

SHIP-SHAPE. In colloquial phrase implies, in a seamanlike manner; as,
"That mast is not rigged ship-shape;" "Put her about ship-shape," &c.
(_See_ BRISTOL FASHION.)

SHIP'S HUSBAND. The agent or broker who manages her accounts with regard
to work performed, repairs, &c., under refit or loading.

SHIP-SLOOP. Commanders were appointed to 24-gun sloops, but when the
same sloops were commanded by captains, they were rated ships.

SHIP'S LUNGS. Dr. Hall's name for the bellows with which he forced the
foul air out of ships.

SHIP'S PAPERS. Documents descriptive of a vessel, her owners, cargo,
destination, and other particulars necessary for the instance court.
Also, those documents required for a neutral ship to prove her such.

SHIP'S REGISTRY AND CERTIFICATE. An official record of a ship's size,
the bills of lading, ownership, &c.

SHIP'S STEWARD. The person who manages the victualling or mess
departments. In the navy, paymaster's steward.

SHIP-STAR. The Anglo-Saxon _scyp-steora_, an early name for the
pole-star, once of the utmost importance in navigation.

SHIP-TIMBER. Contraband in time of war.

SHIPWRECK. The destruction of a vessel by her bea