A man employed in a vessel of war to take charge of a storeroom; as, boatswain's yeoman the man that has charge of the stores, of rigging, etc.

The electrical resistance offered by a material to the flow of current, times the cross-sectional area of current flow and per unit length of current path; the reciprocal of the conductivity. Also called resistivity or specific resistance.

Continuous Survey of Hull

A cleat that attaches to the backstay over the cockpit, usually used for hanging a lantern

Typically a bank or brokerage account in the names of two (or more) people. Arrangements can be.

National Bureau of Standards (see NIST

Billion ECU

The weight of oxygen taken up mainly as a result of the oxidation of the constituents of a sample of water by biological action; expressed as the number of parts per million of oxygen taken up by the sample from water originally saturated with air, usuall ...

States that the pressure of a gas, at constant volume, varies directly with the absolute temperature.

A method for making sheets of polycrystalline silicon (for solar photovlotaic devices) in which molten silicon is drawn upward by capillary action through a mold.

An atmospheric sounding instrument which is supported by a captive balloon and used to obtain temperature and humidity data from the ground level to a height of a few thousand feet. The data is telemetered to the ground through a wire cable.

The machine by which, when dropped to the bottom, the vessel is held fast.

Same as electromotive force series.

Annual Survey

Timbers used to support the deck planking of a wooden ship; also for supporting hatches.

See hydrologic accounting.

The play or loose motion in an instrument due to the clearance existing between mechanically contacting parts.

Vinyl Chloride Monomer. Gas occasionaly carried by LPG tankers. Highly cancerogen, heard that the German allows a crew to carry the gas only once in their carreer. Classified as flamable, toxic and polymerizable.

Aluminium Alloy Pleasure Yacht.

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