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Term for disabled vessel that had to fall out of a convoy and thus became easy prey for submarines.

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 ...

All quoted companies have a legal obligation to send shareholders annual results within six.

A sea on the quarter (coming from a side of the stern).

See 'state.

The largest of the headsails; corresponds to the genoa.

A wall usually about 3 to 4 feet high located that is placed in the attic of a home, anchored with plates between the attic floor joists and the roof joist. Sheathing can be attached to these walls to enclose an attic space.

When the draft of a ship fore and aft are the same. Floating level (no list).

(1) An iron mineral crystallizing in therhombohedral system; the most important oreof iron. (2) An iron oxide, Fe,O,, corrcsponding to an iron content of approximately 70%.

A guarantee issued by a bank, on behalf of a seller to a buyer, in relation to any advance payment that is made by the buyer to the seller to allow the contract to commence. If the contract is not completed the buyer can claim reimbursement of the advance ...

International Convention on the Arrest of Seagoing Ships1952 Allows the creditors of shipping debts to present his claim in any country signatory of the convention, and arrest the vessel if needed

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A forceful resistance to recognized authority. A refusal to obey a legal order of a superior officer is also considered mutiny.

A mortgage in which the rate of interest paid by the borrower follows movements in the base.

The measurement around the body of a ship. The half girth is taken from the center line of the keel to the upper deck beam end.

Quantity of gas actually compressed and delivered to the discharge system at rated speed of the machine and under rated pressure conditions.

Those spaces in which the main navigating equipment, the ship's radio or the emergency source of power are located or where the fire recording or fire control equipment is centralized and also those spaces used for galleys, main pantries, stores (except i ...

A chemical change in a substance that results from the passage of an electric current through an electrolyte. The production of commercial hydrogen by separating the elements of water, hydrogen, and oxygen, by charging the water with an electrical current ...

Mandatory Annual Survey (SOLAS,MARPOL)