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Travel And Tourism
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Sea Travel
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Travelling By Boat Or Ship
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Travel and tourism
Air travel
Aircraft
Airports
Parts of a plane
People in air travel
Plane travel
Public transport
Railway tracks and stations
Train and bus travel
Trains
Road travel
Controlling traffic
Driving
Features of roads
Motoring problems and accidents
Parts of a car
People in motoring
The car industry
Types of road
Types of vehicle
Sea travel
Parts of boats and ships
People in sea travel
Travelling by boat or ship
Types of boats and ships
Tourism
Camping
Countries and continents
Holiday accommodation
Hotel people
Staying in a hotel
The tourist industry
Types of holiday/vacation
aboard
adrift
aground
anchor
anchorage
ashore
backwash
bail out
beacon
berth
bilge
bill of lading
board
boarding card
boathouse
boating
bollard
boom
canal
capsize
cargo
cast off
caulk
channel
chanty
charter
chartered
circumnavigate
crew
crossing
cruise
current
disembark
distress
dock
dockland
dockside
dockyard
dredge
drift
dry dock
dry land
embark
ferry
float
following
forward
founder
free on board
ground
grounding
harbour
heave
helm
high tide
high water
high-water mark
inshore
jetsam
jettison
jetty
jump
keel
land
landfall
landward
launch
lighthouse
list
log
low tide
low-water mark
manifest
manoeuvre
marine
maritime
maroon
Mayday
moor
mooring
mutiny
nautical
nautical mile
navigable
navigate
navigation
navy
offshore
on-board
onshore
overboard
overfishing
paddle
passage
pilot
piracy
pitch
port
port of call
punt
put in
raft
refloat
rig
roll
row
rowing
run
sail
sailing
scull
scuttle
sea
sea lane
sea legs
seaborne
sealift
seamanship
seaport
seasick
seaway
ship
ship-to-shore
shipboard
shipload
shipping
shipping forecast
shipwreck
shipyard
shoot
shoreline
sight
sink
skipper
slipway
SOS
steer
stow away
stowage
stowaway
strand
stroke
swing bridge
tack
tender
terminal
the high seas
tidal
tide
tideline
tidemark
tonnage
topsail
tow
trade route
trawl
trim
tug
turnaround
unload
up-anchor
view
voyage
wake
wash
water
waterline
wet dock
wharf
wind
yaw