Large Automatic Navigation Buoy

Energy required to operate mechanical components of an energy system, or a source of energy or energy supply system to back-up another.

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.

Embrittlement under creep conditions of, for example, aluminum alloys and steels that results in abnormally low rupture ductility. In aluminum alloys, iron in amounts above the solubility limit is known to cause such embrittlement; in steels, the phenomen ...

Committee set up by the Bank of International Settlements and based in Basle. It drew up.

To revolve the drum of a capstan, winch or windlass. (Pulling with mechanical deck heaving gear).

A system of estimating and reporting wind speed, originally based on the effect of various wind speeds on the amount of canvas that a full-rigged nineteenth century frigate could carry.

A navigation instrument used to measure the apparent height of a landmark whose actual height is known, such as the top of a lighthouse. From this information, the ship's distance from that landmark can be calculated.

Marine Casualty Response Center.

To remove water from the boat by hand, bucket, pump etc.

European Federation of Inland Ports

An inert gas. An element found in the atmosphere to the extent of only 0.000114 percent by volume. Its molecular weight is 83.7.

The maximum stress that a material is capable of sustaining without any permanent strain (deformation) remaining upon complete release of the stress.

Negotiating Group on Maritime Transport

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

Virgin Islands, British

42 U.S. gallons (306 pounds of oil, or 5.78 million Btu).

Can occur any time warm, moist air blows over a surface cool enough to drop it's temperature below the dew point.

No Liner On Tailshaft

A factor of proportionality representing the amount of substance diffusing across a unit area through a unit concentration gradient in unit time.