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The amount (percent) of light that is reflected by a surface relative to the amount that strikes it.

Category:Energy Terms

A small vessel fitted for towing.

Category:Sea Words

A person entrusted to manage the assets and interests of another. For example, an executor in a.

Category:Financial Terms

A rail around the mast or on the bulwarks with holes for belaying pins to which lines or halyards are attached.

Category:Sea Words

Same as humidity strip.

Category:Meteorology

Crude oils.

Abbreviation for "Over, Short or Damaged" Usually discovered at cargo unloading.

Category:Sea Words

Is singular for media and is the material...paper, wire, cellulose or a combination... from which the filter element is made and which does the actual filtration or separation.

Category:Sea Words

A spread strategy that decreases the account's cash balance when it is established. A bull spread.

Category:Financial Terms

Person given a passage in one of H.M. ships; usually on compassionate grounds.

Category:Sea Words

PLB

Personal Locator Beacon

Category:Abbreviations

A plot of expected operating characteristics (e.g.., discharge pressure versus inlet capacity, shaft horsepower versus inlet capacity).

Category:Sea Words

Wind coming from the north.

Category:Sea Words

Method of producing a chart in which the parallels of latitude and the meridians of longitude intersect each other at right angles.

Category:Sea Words

MOT

Motor

Category:Abbreviations

STL

Scuttled

Category:Abbreviations

A winch having a rope storage drum with or without warping end for manipulation of the rope bridle.

Category:Technical Terms

SED

U.S. Commerce Department document, "Shipper's Export Declaration."

Category:Sea Words

A semiconductor which exhibits rapid and extremely large changes in resistance for relatively small changes in temperature.

Category:Meteorology

Seaman's scornful name for any lead of a rope by which effort is lost or wasted.

Category:Sea Words