The names of battles or individual ship actions in which a warship has taken part, usually displayed in a prominent place on a ship as a source of pride in her name. Known as Battle Stars in the U.S. Navy.

A unit of signaling speed representing the number of code elements sent per second; often, bits per second.

Space between adjacent frames, on the bottom of a tanker.

An indentation of the coastline between two headlands.

Bareboat (Method of chartering of the ship leaving the charterer with almost all the responsibilities of the owner.)

Barrels

Bulk Carrier, Equipped for Carriage of Containers.

Bulk Carrier, Equipped for Carriage of Rice.

Bulk Carrier, Equipped for Carriage of Vehicles.

Bulk Carrier or Motorcar Carrier

Bulk Carrier or Tanker,Sapbalic Acid.

Bulk Carrier Strengthened for Heavy Cargoes, Nos 1&3 Holds may be empty.

Bulk Carrier Strengthened for Heavy Cargoes, Nos 2,5&7 Holds may be empty. Equipped for Carriage of Containers.

Binary Coded Decimal. A coding system in which each decimal digit from 0 to 9 is represented by a 4-digit binary number.

Bow to Center Manifold

Abbreviation for "Beneficial Cargo Owner." Refers to the importer of record, who physically takes possession of cargo at destination and does not act as a third party in the movement of such goods.

Bangladesh Coasting Service.

Bundle.

Both Dates Inclusive

Macroscopic progression marks on a fatigue fracture or stress-corrosion cracking surface that indicate successive positions of the advancing crack front. The classic appearance is of irregular elliptical or semielliptical rings, radiating outward from one ...