Line 12 inches or 300 mm long, painted amidships on both sides and parallel to the load lines.

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.

A device, such as a steel plate, used to check, retard, or divert a flow of a material.

A small boat, highly ornamented, with a high rising stem and sternpost. Used on the canals of Venice, it is propelled by a man standing near the stern using a single oar

United States Environmental Protection Agency.

A component on a compressed air line designed to increase in magnitude the flow by releasing small amounts of compressed air at high velocity through an internal, ring shaped nozzle. This column of air released through the front creates a vacuum behind, t ...

Hydraulic Coupling

Standard Carrier Alpha Code

Ports and Waterways Safety Act.

Generally speaking the word amidships means in the middle portion of a vessel.

Financial Intermediaries Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association The self regulating organisation originally responsible for governing financial advisers. Became.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Term for a seaman's short leave from his ship, permitting him to go ashore for the day or night.

(AVC)Additional payments to a tax deferred savings account or an occupational pension scheme by an.

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.

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International Bunker Industry Association Ltd

United Nations Convention on the Law Of the Sea

The demand on, or the power output of, an electrical system or any of its parts over an interval of time, as determined by the total number of kilowatt-hours divided by the units of time in the interval.

A psychrometer in which the ventilation is provided by a suction fan.