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.

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

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Bay

An indentation of the coastline between two headlands.

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BAY

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

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BB

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

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Barrels

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Bulk Carrier, Equipped for Carriage of Containers.

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Bulk Carrier, Equipped for Carriage of Rice.

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Bulk Carrier, Equipped for Carriage of Vehicles.

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Bulk Carrier or Motorcar Carrier

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Bulk Carrier or Tanker,Sapbalic Acid.

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

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

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BCD

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

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BCM

Bow to Center Manifold

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BCO

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.

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BCS

Bangladesh Coasting Service.

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BD

Bundle.

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BDI

Both Dates Inclusive

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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 ...