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International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments
The Ballast Water Management Convention is a 2004 International Maritime Organization treaty to prevent the transfer of harmful aquatic organisms in ships' ballast water; it entered into force in 2017.
International Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation
The International Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation is a 1988 UN treaty criminalizing unlawful acts against ships.
International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage
The International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage (CLC) is a 1969 maritime treaty, in force since 1975, placing strict liability for oil pollution on the shipowner.
International Convention on Load Lines
The International Convention on Load Lines is a 1966 treaty, in force since 1968, that sets minimum ship freeboards limiting how deeply ships may be loaded.
International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue
The International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR Convention) is a 1979 International Maritime Organization treaty requiring states to coordinate rescue of people in distress at sea.
International Convention on Salvage
The International Convention on Salvage, adopted in London in 1989 under the IMO, sets uniform rules for salvage and rewards salvors for protecting the marine environment.
International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers
The International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW) is a 1978 International Maritime Organization treaty setting minimum standards for seafarer training, certification, and watchkeeping.
International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage
A 1971 treaty adopted in Brussels that created an intergovernmental fund, financed by cargo receivers, to pay oil pollution compensation beyond the shipowner's liability under the 1969 Civil Liability Convention.
International Longshore and Warehouse Union
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) is a labor union of dockworkers, clerks, and warehouse workers in 29 West Coast ports, born from the 1934 Big Strike.
International Longshoremen's Association
The International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) is a North American labor union of dockworkers affiliated with the AFL-CIO, representing ports from Maine to Texas and in Canada.
International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs) are a maritime treaty adopted in 1972 that sets the rules of the road for vessels, covering conduct, lights, and signals.
International Safety Management Code
The International Safety Management Code is a mandatory International Maritime Organization standard, adopted in 1993, requiring shipping companies to establish documented safety management systems for ship safety and pollution prevention.
International SafetyNET
International SafetyNET is a satellite service for broadcasting maritime safety information, such as navigational and weather warnings, distress alerts, and search and rescue notices, to ships at sea.
International Sail Training Association
The International Sail Training Association (ISTA) was a British-based association that organized the Tall Ships Races in Europe from the 1950s until its assets passed to Sail Training International in 2002.
International Transport Workers' Federation
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) is an international trade union federation of transport workers' unions, founded in London in 1896 and representing over 4.5 million workers in 153 countries.
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) is an international court in Hamburg, Germany, with 21 judges that decides disputes under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Inverted bow
An inverted bow is a ship bow that slopes backwards above the waterline, with a fine vertical entry and no bulb, best known in Ulstein's X-BOW of 2005.
Iowa-class battleship
The Iowa-class battleships were four fast battleships completed for the United States Navy from 1942, serving in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War.
IRIS Shahid Bagheri
IRIS Shahid Bagheri (Persian: شهید باقری) was an Iranian drone carrier of the Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, commissioned in 2025 and sunk by US forces in 2026.
Ironclad warship
Ironclad warships were steam-propelled warships protected by iron or steel armor, first used at Kinburn in 1855, defining the era that led to the battleship.
Ise-class battleship
The Ise class was a class of two dreadnought battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Ise and Hyūga, completed in 1917 and 1918 and rebuilt as hybrid battleship-carriers after Midway.
Italian battleship Giulio Cesare
Giulio Cesare, later the Soviet battleship Novorossiysk, was an Italian Conte di Cavour-class battleship rebuilt from 1933 to 1937 that fought at Punta Stilo in 1940.
Italian Line
Italian Line (Italiana di Navigazione) was a state-controlled Italian shipping company, formed at Genoa in 1932, that ran passenger services between Italy and the Americas.
Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci
The Amerigo Vespucci is a full-rigged sailing training ship of the Italian Navy, launched in 1931 to train Naval Academy cadets and still in service.
J. Bruce Ismay
J. Bruce Ismay (Joseph Bruce Ismay) was an English shipowner and chairman of the White Star Line who survived the Titanic's sinking in 1912 and resigned the following year.
J.M. White
The J.M. White was a sidewheel cotton packet steamboat built in 1878 at Jeffersonville, Indiana, running the lower Mississippi until she burned at a Louisiana landing in 1886.
Jack Tar
Jack Tar was a generic English nickname for an ordinary British seaman below officer rank, naval or merchant, probably from tarred tarpaulin clothing, and a British cultural icon of the long eighteenth century.
Jack Thayer
Jack Thayer, born John Borland "Jack" Thayer Jr., was an American first-class Titanic passenger, 17 when the ship sank in 1912, whose 1940 memoir described the breakup.
James Bartley
James Bartley is the central figure of an 1891 legend in which a British sailor survived inside a sperm whale's stomach near the Falkland Islands, debunked by later investigation.
James S. C. Chao (赵锡成)
James S. C. Chao, also known as James Si-Cheng Chao, is a Chinese-American shipping executive who founded the Foremost Group in New York in 1964 and is the father of Elaine Chao.