When reaching retirement age, a person can elect to defer payment of his/her state pension. The.

The maximum rope tension (in kilonewtons), measured at drum exit when the drum just commences to rotate on the opposite direction to the applied driving torque, the prime mover being set for maximum torque in automatic control, with the rope wound on t ...

Sling of various types used for lifting vehicles on to and off general cargo ship.s

A wind blowing in a direction perpendicular to the course of a moving object.

When the water has large or breaking waves in stormy conditions.

Equipment used for serving meals.

An instrument used to reveal but not necessarily measure the presence of an electrical quantity. It is used to display the output of a sensing element after suitable amplification and modification. Sometimes called display.

A warning from aloft (heads up).

A rope net to catch the jib when it is lowered.

A machine employing two or more stages.

International Medical Guide for Ships

The level at which ice crystals and snowflakes melt as they descend through the atmosphere.

(cash against documents) or D/P (documents against payment) or D/P (documents against payment)

Pertaining to forces on a body or part of a body that tend to crush or compress the body.

The effect of cooling by the radiation of heat from a building to the night sky.

A tiller or a wheel generally installed on the bridge or wheelhouse of a ship to turn the rudder during manoeuvering and navigation. It is in fact the steering wheel of the ship.

When a vessel's head falls off from the wind. To pay. To cover over with tar or pitch. To pay out. To slack up on a cable and let it run out.

Classification character for a ship which had been built under the Society/s survey but has been subjected to survey for classification of the Society/s surveyors.

A device for converting mechanical energy to electrical energy.

(1) An organic compound in which atoms form more than one coordinate bond with metals in solution. (2) A substance used in metal finishing to control or eliminate certain metallic ions present in undesirable quantities.