A metallic structure on which a compressor or other machine is mounted.

A provider of venture capital, usually used in relation to backers of theatrical.

The production of an electric current in a conductor by the variation of a magnetic field in its vicinity.

Telex

Cycloidal Propeller

A network of checks or cracks appearing on the surface.

Transfer Of Class Agreement (IACS)

Vessel of Opportunity Skimming System

A metal air-tight tank built into a boat to insure flotation even when the boat is swamped.

AMMONIA (Anhydrous). Gas usually carried by LPG tankers at about -50 deg.c. Lighter than air, it is easily escaping from any openning and be highly dangerous to inhale in great uantity. Reacting violently with water. All degrees centigrade: Boiling point: ...

An instrument which determines the black-body temperature of a substance by measuring its thermal radiation.

A timber or rib of a ship running from the keel to the side rail; the transverse strengthening members in a ship's hull that extend from the keel to the deck or gunwale. The frames form the shape of the hull and act as a skeleton on which the hull plankin ...

An organisation established in 1989 to improve the image of Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs).

Performing a chromate treatment

Air in motion relative to the surface of the earth. Almost exclusively used to denote the horizontal component.

Institute of Marine Engineers

An atmosphere in an area of heavy industry with soot, fly ash, and sulfur compounds as the principal constituents.

A condition in which a piece of metal, because of an impervious covering of oxide or other compound, has a potential much more positive than that at the metal in the active state.

The unit of illuminance equivalent to 1lumen per square meter.

Type of order given.