Carries supplies to drilling units or installations during field de-velopment or production.

The direction of an object (with reference to you, your ship, another object).

All rigging, cranes, etc., utilized on a ship to load or unload cargo.

Any point of sailing away from the wind.

A class of rain gauge in which the level of the collected rain water is measured by the position of a float resting on the surface of the water.

International Oil Pollution Fund

An emergency signal flare that will float down on a parachute after launch, hopefully improving its visibility.

The leaning of a boat to the side because of excess weight on that side; inclination of a boat due to excess weight on one side or the other.

(ECGD) The government department which helps companies finance exports, mainly by insuring them against the.

See principal stress (normal).

A family of chemicals composed primarily of carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, and fluorine whose principal applications are as refrigerants and industrial cleansers and whose principal drawback is the tendency to destroy the Earth's protective ozone layer.

Deck supported by pillars, fastened to pontoons. The pontoons are half submerged during operations. Kept in position by anchors (or by dynamic positioning). Normally equipped with its own propulsion machinery.

Same as atmometer.

Motor Lifeboat

Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act

Old name for bunting from which signal and other flags were made.

The use of spending and taxation by the government in order to achieve its economic objectives. Put.

When all money in a portfolio is invested in securities as opposed to retaining some cash, it is.

A c.g.s. (centimeter-gram-second) unit of mass. Originally defined as the mass of 1 cubic centimeter of water at 4

Small stuff seized across a hook to prevent it from unshipping (once hooked, mousing keeps the hook on).