Various pieces of rigging which hold a bowsprit in position.

A facility or enclosure in which air content and other conditions (such as temperature, humidity, and pressure) are controlled and maintained at a specific level by special facilities and operating processes and by trained personnel.

A kind of winch, which is applied for deep sea-bed material sampling, and performing the benthonic organism trawl survey.

Eight double strokes on ship's bell; customarily struck at midnight when new year commences.

A filter element which, when loaded, can be restored by a suitable process, to an acceptable percentage of its original dirt capacity.

The ratio of the measured relieving capacity to the theoretical relieving capacity.

A device for mounting cylinders.

A kind of winch, which is applied for receiving/throwing the hydrographic survey apparatus, and performing the hydrographic measurements.

An anti trust act of the U.S. Congress making price discrimination unlawful.

A circulation process designed to remove contamination.

A sailboat sailing on a tack with the wind coming from starboard and the boom on the port side. If two boats under sail are approaching, the one on port tack must give way to the boat on starboard tack.

Is the temperature existing at the discharge port of the compressor.

The stopping of articles, such as peanuts, etc., for cleaning at a point between the point of origin and destination.

The minimum differential pressure that an element is designed to withstand without permanent deformation.

Applied to a wind, or movement of a vessel, to denote brisk and lively.

All those employed to work on board the vessel.

The unstable operation of a centrifugal compressor below the design point of the compressor.

Technically, a flat-bottomed boat, but often used to name any small boat for rowing, sculling, or fitted with an outboard motor

All boats are referred to as female. She is at anchor. Her sails are set. She is beautiful.

Land ice, either afloat or on ground, that is composed of layers of sow that have become firm but have not turned to glacier ice.