Structural pieces running fore and aft between the beams.

A facility which allows a delay in buying an annuity if rates should be low when retirement age is.

A means of purifying an air stream by using both gravitational and centrifugal forces.

Coasting Service in the Philippines and Home Trade limit Service.

A winch, frequently unpowered, having rope storage capacity and used for topping and lowering a derrick boom while the boom is unloaded and for supporting it while it is supporting a load.

Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular (USCG).

Energy supplied during periods of relatively high system demands as specified by the supplier.

A fracture, usually of' polycrystalline metal, in which most of the grains have failed by cleavage, resulting in bright reflecting facets. It is associated with low-energy brittle fracture.

Sea water used for ballast, let into the double bottom, or into a water-ballast tank, or trimming tanks.

Independent Tank, Common

The length of the boat at the waterline.

A wooden enclosure about sixteen feet square and eight feet high with a precipitation gauge at its center. The function of the fence is to minimize eddies around the gauge and thus insure a catch that is representative of the actual rainfall or snowfall.

An instrument used to reveal but not necessarily measure the presence of an electrical quantity. It is used to display the output of a sensing element after suitable amplification and modification. Sometimes called display.

Localized corrosion frequently observed in oilwell tubing in which a circumfrential attack is observed near a region of metal "upset".

Assault upon a seaman, by Master, while at sea.

Owners or operators of vessels providing transportation to shippers. The term is also used to refer to the vessels.

The amount of BTU's/hour or kW's produced by a heating system from the burning of a fuel.

The most common type of sail used today, a triangle-shaped mainsail defined by the mast and one horizontal boom perpendicular to the mast.

Is the property of a substance that gauges the potential or driving force for the flow of heat.

Expenses incurred by a person whilst carrying out duties at work, which are 'approved' by the tax.