System to Automate and Integrate Logistics.

Abbreviation for "Doing Business As." A legal term for conducting business under a registered name.

International Gas carrier Code. Code for the construction and equipment of ships carrying liquified gases in bulk.

Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization

United Kingdom Mutual

Free In Out and Spout-Trimmed.

A recording hair hygrometer.

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Secondary forestay supporting the leading edge of the mast and used to flatten the mainsail in building winds.

Corrosion in which nickel is selectively leached from nickel-containing alloys. Most commonly observed in copper-nickel alloys after extended service in fresh water. See also dealloying, and selective Ieaching.

A gentle breeze; the slightest movement of air.

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

To back an anchor, is to carry out a smaller one ahead of the one by which the vessel rides, to take off some of the strain. To back a sail, is throw it aback. To back and fill, is alternately to back and fill the sails.

The prefix placed before the name of a warship of the British Navy to indicate that she is Her (His) Majesty's ship.

The angle between the zenith and a heavenly body.

Quality System Manual.QSC

The Quebec pennant is flown when first entering a country, indicating that the people on the ship are healthy and that the vessel wants permission to visit the country. The flag means "My vessel is healthy and I request free pratique.

Quality Improvement Team.

Abbreviation for "Dangerous and Hazardous" cargo.

Used to indicated times measured in Coordinated Universal Time, a successor to Greenwich Mean Time. A time standard that is not affected by time zones or seasons.