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)

Allows equipment and supplies arriving at one port to be loaded on a vessel, aircraft, etc., for its exclusive use and to be exported from the same port.

A wall that carries ceiling rafters or roof trusses.

Passenger Ship.

One carrier assumes the charges of another without any increase in charges to the shipper.

An air pollution control device that removes organic contaminants by oxidizing them into carbon dioxide and water through a chemical reaction using a catalysis, which is a substance that increases (or decreases) the rate of a chemical reaction without bei ...

General Council of British Shipping

Portable Electronic Thermometer

Close beside a ship, wharf or jetty.

An instrument for the measurement of both solar and terrestrial radiation.

An instrument which records the duration of sunshine and gives a quantitative measure of the amount of sunshine by the action of the sun's rays upon blueprint paper. A type of sunshine recorder.

A chromate conversion coating produced on magnesium alloys in a boiling solution of sodium dichromate.

A measure of the flow of current (in amperes) over one hour.

(1) A sailing vessel common in the Far East. It's flat-bottomed, high sterned, has square bows, and has two or three masts carrying lugsails. (2) Old and condemned rope.

Occurs in the base metal adjacent to weldments due to high through-thickness strains introduced by weld metal shrinkage in highly restrained joints. Tearing occurs by decohesion and linking along the working direction of the base metal; cracks usually run ...

A written agreement (also called a deed of trust) between a bond issuer and a purchaser which.

The ratio of the average load on (or power output of) a generating unit or system to the capacity rating of the unit or system over a specified period of time.

Single Anchor Leg Mooring

The pressure unit of the meter-ton-second system of physical units. equal to 10 millibars or 101 dynes per cm2.