Long Ton = 1016.05 kilogram

Light displacement tonnage, lost during transhipment

Long Ton/Miles

Local Trade limit Service.

Laid-Up

A clumsy and unskilled man.

The black line parallel with ship's keel marked on the inner surface of the bowl of a compass, indicating the compass direction of the ship's head.

A line on the compass aligned with the centerline of the vessel that indicates the vessel's compass heading. Since it points to the vessel's bow, it enables a course to be steered by bringing the lubber's line to the point on the compass card which indica ...

A material (such as oil) used between moving parts of machinery to make the surfaces slippery and reduce friction.

An instrument designed to add lubrication into the compressed air line.

Instrument for measuring the mean intensity of glo global solar radiation (direct and diffuse) near the earth's surface in a specified time interval.

The forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail

To steer the boat more into the wind, thereby causing the sails to flap or luff.

To luff or luff up is to head into the wind, causing sails to flutter.

Large Unit Financial System.

A four sided sail bent onto a yard. Similar to a gaff sail, but with a wider throat.

A small tube or capillary filled with electrolyte, terminating close to the metal surface under study, and used to provide an ionically conducting path without diffusion between an electrode under study and a reference electrode.

Metal or plastic pieces attached to a sail's luff that slide in a mast track to allow easy hoisting of the sail.

A momentary decrease in the speed of the wind.

An empirical measure of the quantity of light. It is based upon the spectral sensitivity of the photosensors in the human eye under high (daytime) light levels. Photometrically it is the luminous flux emitted with a solid angle (1 steradian) by a point so ...