TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a sentence or phrase in English. You must translate it to Xhosa in a way that is equivalent in terms of meaning and grammatically correct.
PROBLEM: Plates fitted fore and aft between floors to check the rush of bilge water from side to side when the ship is rolling.

SOLUTION: Amacangci alungiselelweyo afumaneka phakathi komva womphambili womgangatho wenqanawe, ahlola ukukhawuleza kwamanzi kumphantsi wenqanawe, ukusuka kwelinye icala ukuya kwelinye, xa inqanawe igungqagungqa.

PROBLEM: Most ships are fitted with port and starboard hawsepipes.

SOLUTION: Uninzi lweenqanawa lulinganiswe namacala asekhohlo enqanawa kunye nenkwenkwezi yebhadi kumbhobho wokunkcenkceshela.

PROBLEM: In 1882, when the prototype ore-carrier went into service on the American Great Lakes, and when only four years later the first tanker, the "Gluckauf", was put into service carrying the oil in its cargo holds which took the form of tanks rather than in barrels, nobody could foresee that this was the start of specialisation in the shipping field.

SOLUTION:
Ngomnyaka wamakhulu alishumi elinesibhozo anamashunci asiphozo anesibini, xa umzekelo wokuqala wesithwala ntsimbi ekrwada uye kulungiswa kumachibi amakhulu aseAmerika, kwangexesha leminyaka emine emva koko itanki yokuqala, i'Guckaff' yasetyenziswa iphethe i-oyile kwiziphathi mithwalo eyayithathe ubume betanki kunemiphanda, akukho mntu wayesazi ukuba oku yayikukuqala kobuncutshe kwamasimi orhwebo.