Croatian Register of Shipping (Class Society)

Marine Casualty Response Center.

The largest of the headsails; corresponds to the genoa.

A measure of the heating requirements of a building expressed in Btu per degree-day.

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 ...

Closest Point of Approach

European Marine Equipment Council

A commission issued, licensing the commander of a privately owned ship to cruise in search of enemy merchant vessels. see Privateer.

The maximum credit an individual may secure from his/her.

To sail large, with wind about four points abaft beam.

An insulation product composed of loose fibers or fiber pellets that are blown into building cavities or attics using special pneumatic equipment.

Passenger

A device that cuts off the flow of hot or cold air to or from a room as controlled by a thermostat.

The maximum load that a motor is capable of supplying.

The correction applied to an instrument to account for the effect of temperature upon its response characteristics.

The process by which events in the real world are translated into machine-readable signals.

Western Dredging Association

An agreement by an ocean carrier to provide cargo space on a vessel at a specified time and for a specified price to accommodate an exporter or importer.

(AMEX)A stock exchange located in Manhattan where stocks of small to medium sized companies are.

Small trading vessel also used for exploration. Three-masted, being square-rigged on the two forward masts, and having a lateen rigged mizzen mast. Christopher Colmbus' small squadron, the Santa Maria, Pinta, and Nina, were all Caravels, as were Magellan' ...