Stand watch, during which they steer the vessel, stand lookout, assist the mate on watch and make rounds of the ship to insure that all is in order. They also tie up and untie the vessel to and from the dock and maintain the equipment on deck.

A means of reducing the volume of a material by compaction into a bale.

The next grade above the beginning grade of ordinary seaman in the deck crew.

Energy storage using electrochemical batteries. The three main applications for battery energy storage systems include spinning reserve at generating stations, load leveling at substations, and peak shaving on the customer side of the meter.

The amount of energy (in electron volts) required to free an outer shell electron from its orbit about the nucleus to a free state, and thus promote it from the valence to the conduction level.

The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit of water, at or near the temperature of maximum density, one degree Celsius (or Centigrade [C]); expressed as a "small calorie" (the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram ...

Antwerp Hamburg Range

Embrittlement of low-carbon steels resulting from precipitation of solute carbon at existing dislocations and from precipitation hardening of the steel caused by differences in the solid solubility of carbon in ferrite at different temperatures. Quench-ag ...

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.

An octagonal shaped shelter that originated in Mongolia, and traditionally made from leather or canvas for easy transportation.

A type of cyanometer. an instrument used to measure the blueness of the sky. The Linke-scale is simply a set of eight cards of different standardized shades of blue. They are evenly numbered 2 to 26. The odd numbers are used by the observer if he or she j ...

Marine Custody Transfer

Value Added Tax

Brittleness exhibited by some steels after being heated to a temperature within the range of about 200 to 370

Hertz

British Marine Equipment Association

Europe Asia Trades Agreement (Conference)

Bulgarian Lloyd (Class Society)

A chemical substance that yields hydroxyl ions (OH ) when dissolved in water. Compare with acid.

A graphical aid used in the reduction of data from a winds aloft observation.