Federal Water Pollution Control Act

Water Ballast

A device used to control the voltage in a fluorescent lamp.

Lying almost beam on to strong winds and being driven before them while under bare poles (without sails up). The helm is lashed so as to point the vessel into the wind, but it continually falls away because of the pressure of the wind. It is a technique f ...

Combined supply and anchor-handling ship. Seismic ship: Conducts seismic surveys to map geological structures beneath the sea bed.

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 ...

Inert Gas System

When a perfect gas flows through a throttling with constant inlet and outlet pressures, the temperature of the gas is the same before and after it flows through the throttling. There is a temperature drop, however, during the passage of gas through the th ...

A unit of length named for A.J. Angstome, a Swedish spectoscopist, used in measuring electromagnetic radiation equal to 0.000,000,01 centimeters.

Dropping Outward (Sea) Pilot (time). When the vessel leaves the last discharge port. It is often the time used as the end of a Voyage charter.

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Multipurpose Work Boat.

The power output of a power plant that can be continuously produced.

Joint Venture

A crane with a cantilever which is incapable of luffing. The cargo hook is fixed on the out end of the cantilever or hanged on a movable carriage along it.

General Conditions

The inverse of electrochemical impedance.

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Demolished

Annual Cargo Refrigeration System survey.