On square-rigged ships, an additional sail set in good weather outside the square sails when the wind was abaft the beam.

Putting cargo into a container.

A fitting around the propeller shaft to keep the bearing lubricated and to keep water out of the boat.

The packing arrangement for maintaining fluid tight an opening in a buklhead or cylinder through which a rotating shaft or a piston operates.

Subcommittee on Standards of Training and Watchkeeping (IMO)

Said to weigh.

Subject (To .....)

Are the connections between the headers and the work station.

Depending upon as a condition

To put in place of another; i.e., when an insurance company pays a claim it is placed in the same position as the payee with regard to any rights against others.

An extent of corrosion such that assessement or corrosion pattern indicates a wastage in excess of 75% of the allowable margins, but within the acceptable limits.

An electrical installation containing power conversion (and sometimes generation) equipment, such as transformers, compensators, and circuit breakers.

The physical material upon which a photovoltaic cell is applied.

Formation of isolated particles of corrosion products beneath a metal surface. This results from the prcferential reactions of certain alloy constituents to inward diffusion of oxygen, nitrogen, or sulfur.

Originally, to suck rum from a coconut, the end of the nut resembling a monkey's face. Later, illicitly to suck spirit from a cask, usually through a straw. Also called Bleed the Monkey.

This is the pressure found on the suction side of a refrigeration system.

A tanker of the maximum size capable of transit of the Suez Canal (approx. 150,000-200,000 DWT)

A wharf licensed and attended by Customs authorities.

The reaction of a metal or alloy with a sulfur-containing species to produce a sulfur compound that forms on or beneath the surface on the metal or alloy.

Brittle failure by cracking under the combined action of tensile stress and corrosion in the presence of water and hydrogen sulfide. See also environmental cracking.