Character of main propulsion machinery assigned to a ship having classification character NS.

A recording weight barometer.

An electrolytic cell, the electromotive force of which is caused by a difference in concentration of some component in the electrolyte. This difference leads to the formation of discrete cathode and anode regions.

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

Pockets in a sail where battens can be placed to stiffen the sail.

Free In Wagon

Short for compressed natural gas or CNG. A type of compressed gas used as fuel for stoves and heaters. CNG is stored in metal cylinders prior to use. CNG is considered safer than other types of fuel such as propane LPG - because it is lighter than air and ...

Small boat carried on the vessel and used in case of emergency.

The amount of heat produced from the complete combustion of a unit of fuel. The higher (or gross) heating value is that when all products of combustion are cooled to the pre-combustion temperature, water vapor formed during combustion is condensed, and ne ...

The arithmetic wind speed over a specified time period and height above the ground (the majority of U.S. National Weather Service anemometers are at 20 feet (6.1 meters).

ACRONYM - National Pipe Thread standard. A description of a specific pipe thread

A corporate restructuring in which one part of a company is spun off as a new company, often.

Communications Quality Improvement Team.

A wind shift that allows a boat to sail above its mean wind course.

The fitting which connects the boom to the mast.

A prisoner sold in the slave market. He was forced to serve in the war galleys, where he pulled on one of the oars.

Income usually relevant to two people (for example man and wife) which continues until the death of.

The ratio of the radiant energy (heat) leaving (being emitted by) a surface to that of a black body at the same temperature and with the same area; expressed as a number between 0 and 1.

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

An obsolete historical term usually applied to stress-corrosion crackling of brass.