A recording anemoclinometer.

Now used as a Storage Tanker

A pallet so designed that the forks of a fork lift truck can be inserted from two sides only.

A heat treatment, whether accidental, intentional, or incidental (as during welding), that causes precipitation of constituents at grain boundaries, often causing the alloy to become susceptible to intergranular corrosion or intergranular stress-corrosion ...

Subcommittee on Radio Communication and Search and Rescue (IMO)

The act if striking or collision of a moving vessel against a stationary object.

A hole in a tank, boiler or compartment on a ship, designed to allow the passage of a man for examination, cleaning, and repairs.

Power generated by a utility unit that operates at a very high capacity factor.

Binary cycle systems can be used with liquids at temperatures less than 350 F (177 C). In these systems, the hot geothermal liquid vaporizes a secondary working fluid, which then drives a turbine.

A type of rain gauge shield consisting of freely hanging, evenly spaced slats arranged circularly around the gauge. The advantage of this shield is that the slats do not easily accumulate snow, permitting its use on unattended gauges. See rain gauge shiel ...

Inmarsat Mobile Number

An electrolytic cell, the electromotive force of which is due to a difference in air (oxygen) concentration at one electrode as compared with that at another electrode of the same material; an oxygen concentration cell (a cell resulting from a potential d ...

Seaman's call to attract attention.

Electronic Navigation Chart

The absorption of carbon into a metal surface; may or may not be desirable.

Accountable Item Management System.

Compartment in the stern of a vessel used for storage; a storage space below the deck in the cockpit.

The stress at which a material exhibits a specified deviation from proportionality of stress and strain. An onset of 0.2% is used for many metals.

Marine Environmental Protection.

The outboard hulls of a trimaran.