[meaning]

Prefix before a ship's name to indicate that she is a steamship.

Radio Direction and Range

Federation of American Controlled Shipping.

Used by some seamen to describe St. Elmo's Fire.

Fit and beautiful (describing a boat)

Inlet guide-vane valve. Valve assembly at the air inlet of a "blower" (single stage, low pressure, centrifugal air compressor). Usually advised to be mounted in very close proximity to the "blower" impeller. Provides "pre-swirl" of air flow in same rotati ...

Code of minimum conditions for the carriage of cargo under a bill of lading.

New Building

A material made of tarred hemp or manila rope fibers, used for caulking seams of decks and sides of a wooden ship in order to make them watertight.

(1) A fore-sail flying above and forward of the jib, usually seen on bowsprit vessels. (2) A foresail used on yachts similar to a genoa, but cut narrower, with its leech not overlapping the mainsail, and a higher clew.

A large piece of fabric designed to be hoisted on the spars of a sailboat in such a manner as to catch the wind and propel the boat.

Reduction of corrosion of a metal in an electrolyte by galvanically coupling it to a more anodic metal; a form of cathodic protection.

Liquid flows through into the valve and flows out through one of two tubes which is selected by changing the angle of a lever.

A measurement. Inside diameter.

Ultra High Frequency. (300-3000 MHz) The apparatus using these frequencies are the best one for internal communications on steel ships as they are not hampered by steel bulkheads.

Eastern Central Motor Carriers Association.

The motion of a vessel when she goes off from her course.

Children's bonus bonds, often nicknamed baby bonds, are friendly society policies allowing tax-free.

Asian Shipowners Forum.