(1) The alternate rise and fall of the bow of a vessel proceeding through waves; also called hobby horsing (2) The theoretical distance advanced by a propeller in one revolution. (3) Tar and resin used for caulking between the planks of a wooden vessel.

The strongest part of a vessel's side, to which the beams, knees, and foot-hooks are bolted. The part between the water's edge and the bulwarks.

A calorimetric radiation instrument of historic interest used for the measurement of outgoing heat radiation from the earth during an interval of time. The time integration is performed by allowing the radiation to fall on an uninsulated vessel containing ...

Lloyd's of London Press

Maritime Subsidy Board

See sea-water thermometer, reversing thermometer.

The supportive structure of a building.

A unit of work, being the work done in one hour at the rate of 1,000 watts.

Error that can be introduced when not reading an instrument, such as a compass, directly from its front, due to the separation of the indicator and the scale being read.

One mole is the mass numerically equal (in grams) to the relative molecular mass of a substance. It is the amount of substance of a system that contains as many elementary units (6.023 exp23) as there are atoms of carbon in 0.012 kg of the pure nuclide C1 ...

Derrick

Hull Stress Monitoring System

Dispute Settlement Body

To leak; take in water.

A fixed navigation aid structure, visible during the day, used in shallow waters upon which is placed one or more daymarks.

Maritime Institute for Research and Industrial Development.

The number of futures or options contracts required to hedge/counteract the exposure in the.

Brittie fracture of a normally ductile material in which the corrosive effect of the environment is a causative factor. Environmental cracking is a general term that includes corrosion fatigue, high-temperature hydrogen attack, hydrogen blistering, hydrog ...

Visible at magnifications above 25x.

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