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Port State Initiative (U.S. Coast Guard)

Negative Vorticity Advection.

Overboard and by the ship's side.

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

Any body of rate tariffs that are not part of an agreement or conference system.

The whole crew.

Wooden bar with an iron shod, wedge, Shaped end, used in prying the anchor or working the anchor or working the anchor chain. Also used to engage or disengage the wild-cat.

Horizontal

For a wind turbine, the ratio of the speed of the tip of a turbine blade for which the power coefficient is at maximum.

A mechanical, electrical, or manually operated pump used to remove water from the bilge.

A fatigue fracture feature, often observed in electron micrographs, that indicates the position of the crack front after each succeeding cycle of stress. The distance between striations indicates the advance of the crack front across that crystal during o ...

A stress that causes two parts of an elastic body. on either side of a typical stress plane, to pull apart. Contrast with compressive stress.

See sea-water thermometer, reversing thermometer.

Classification character for a ship which had been built under the Society/s survey but has been subjected to survey for classification of the Society/s surveyors.

Is the ratio of actual capacity to piston displacement, stated as a percentage.

Latitude lines.

Man employed in unloading ships in harbour, or in taking a ship from one port to another. Paid "lump" sum for services.

A nephoscope in which the motion of the cloud is observed by its reflection in a mirror.

Greece (Flag)