A film on a metal surface resulting from an electrolytic treatment at the anode..

Admiralty List of Radio Signals. British admiralty publications (8 volumes, some of them in double or triple books) informing the navigators about all the radio stations and various kind of broacasted informations such as time signals, weather & navigatio ...

International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue Manual

Insurance which pays benefits in the event of an accident. Items typically covered are medical.

Overseas Private Investment Corporation.

(See CCS or CS)

Abbreviation for "Uniform Freight Classification."

Operations Control Centre (INMARSAT)

The date to which accounts are made up for a company. When a company is incorporated, it will.

An organisation, usually a merchant bank, which accepts or guarantees bills of.

Azimuthing Stern Drive.

Charterparty or Charter Party

Quadruple Screw

Cost of a product before transportation costs are figured in Free on Board Free on Board means that the seller delivers when the goods pass the ship’s rail at the named port of shipment. This means that the buyer has to bear all costs and risks of loss ...

Electrode reaction equivalent to a transfer of positive charge from the electronic to the ionic conductor. An anodic reaction is an oxidation process. An example common in corrosion is: Me -> Me(+n) + n(e-)

Bulkhead

Also 'account payee only'. Words written on the face of a cheque between two parallel diagonal.

Pipes made of heavy cast iron or steel through which the anchor chain runs; placed in the ship's bow on each side of the stem, or in some cases also at the stern when a stern anchor is used.

Hull and Machinery

An appreciable reduction in corrosion by making a metal an anode and maintaining this highly polarized condition with very little current flow.