A device for mounting cylinders.

Vessel contract where charterers take over all responsibility for the operation of the vessel and expenses for a certain period of time.

Material that stores energy, although mass will also retain coolness. The thermal storage capacity of a material is a measure of the material's ability to absorb and store heat.

A tube with a narrow throat (a constriction) that increases the velocity and lowers the pressure of the liquid passing through it, creating a partial vacuum immediately after the constriction in the tube. The vacuum created has a sucking effect, and a ven ...

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Pointed iron implement used in separating the strands of rope in splicing, marling, etc.

A compressor belonging to the group of displacement reciprocating compressors.

An order to stop; as, "Avast heaving!"

(1) To bind a line with marline, cord, twine, wire, or other "small stuff" to prevent accidental opening or unraveling (2) To freeze up, as a valve.

A unit of volume. A US gallon has 231 cubic inches or 3,785 liters.

A method of lowering the sail in sections so that it can be reefed quickly.

To repeat an order for information to the crew.

Is the temperature existing at the discharge port of the compressor.

Filtering unit that separates solids and liquid droplets from gas (air). Widely used in removing oil from a gas or air.

Federal Communications Commission Rules governing radio equipment and operation in the United States.

Those causes of loss for which the carrier is not legally liable. The elemental risks of ocean transport.

Numbers of large pieces of floating ice that have come together and lie more or less in contact.

A portable generator which can be attached to a refrigerated container to power the refrigeration unit during transit.

The resistance to movement. (2) An anchor drags when its flukes do not hold.

A rate applicable from a point on one transportation line to a point on another line, made by agreement and published in a single tariff by all transportation lines over which the rate applies.