Close beside a ship, wharf or jetty.

An obsolete historical term denoting a form of stress-corrosion cracking most frequently encountered in carbon steels or iron-chromium-nickel alloys that are exposed to concentrated hydroxide solutions at temperatures of 200 to 250

Radio Direction Finder.

A single turn of line around an object with the end being led back through the bight. It's the basis upon which many nautical knots are contructed.

The destruction of adhesion between a coating and its substrate by products of a cathodic reaction.

Automated Surface Observing System. A network of instrumented weather stations deployed primarily by the National Weather Service to make weather observations without operator involvement.

Machinery other than main propelling machinery that is in service when the ship is in normal service, e.g. auxiliary diesel engines, turbogenerators, hydraulic motors and pumps, compressors, boiler ventilation fans, gear pumps.

The minimum value of Kc for any given material and condition, which is attained when rapid crack propagation in the opening mode is governed by plane-strain conditions.

The process of determining energy consumption, by various techniques, of a building or facility.

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A metallic connection that provides electrical continuity between metal structures.

Capital Construction Fund: A tax benefit for operators of U.S.-built, U.S.-flag ships in the U.S. foreign, Great Lakes, or noncontiguous domestic trades, by which taxes may be deferred on income deposited in a fund to be used for the replacement of vessel ...

A wind vane used to obtain the horizontal and vertical components of the wind.

See 'reversionary.

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Vessel Pays Dues

Cubic capacity of a vessels holds to carry packaged dry cargo such as bales/pallets.

Conduction of electric current from an underground metallic structure by means of a metallic conductor. Forced drainage is that applied to underground metallic structures by means of an applied electromotive force or sacrificial anode. Natural drainage is ...

The control of the quality, quantity, and temperature-humidity of the air in an interior space.

Waste Heat Boiler Survey