No Liner On Tailshaft

Water-Tube Boiler Survey

A combustible gas created by anaerobic decomposition of organic material, composed primarily of methane, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide.

International Cargo Advisory Bureau

An electrical conductor that serves as a common connection for two or more electrical circuits; may be in the form of rigid bars or stranded conductors or cables.

A contract or other instrument for the purchase or sale of a group of shares or currencies, all.

One Person Bridge Operation.

The mass density of a parcel of air expressed in units of mass per volume.

Very Large Bulk Carrier (over 180,000 DWT)

International Maritime Industries Forum

A condition in which the interfacial tension between a liquid and a solid is such that the contact angle is 0

An instrument used to keep a record of atmospheric pressure, such as on a paper drum.

Closed, curved, flexible tube of elliptic cross section which is deformed, according to type, by variations of atmosphere spheric pressure or temperature and so provides a measurement of the particular parameter.

Patrol/Work Boat.

In the US, a fund held by a section of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation as deposit.

Forming austenite by heating a ferrous alloy into the transformation range (partial austenitizing) or above the transformation range (complete austenitizing). When used without qualification, the term implies complete austenitizing.

A company which is in severe trouble, but still with some hope of recovery, may be put into the. – As used in international conventions, the government of the state whose flag the ship is flying.

Very Large Crude Carrier (between 160,000 - 320,000 DWT)

Working Paper

World Trade Organization