Apparatus designed to measure the amount of precipitation falling in the form of snow. The device determines the weight of the snow or the volume of water after the snow melts.

Country, island or territory the vessel visits.

The slowest speed at which a vessel steers.

is an ideal process that may be stopped and made to retrace its steps and restore to the systems or surroundings all work and heat previously removed. It is frictionless.

A reference to the major operational changes on the London Stock Exchange which took place on.

(0.2+0.02 log10(Vc)) Vc (4d/3D)2, for passenger ships the following formula is added: 1.25 (GT+10000)/10000 (N1+(N2/10)), where Vc is the volume of cargo holds, D is the distance between ship's bottom and the uppermost deck, d is the draught N1 is the num ...

Any signal that is used to indicate that a vessel is in distress and needs help. Flares, smoke, audible alarms, EPIRB, electronic beacons and others are all types of distress signals.(2) A flag display or a sound, light, or radio signal calling for assist ...

Old expression for the engraving of the wind-rose on charts.

Heat exchangers for removing the heat of compression between stages of a compressor.

A call on the bo'sun's pipe at night for the hands to turn in, for silence in the messdecks, and for lights to be extinguished. Also a term used by a sailor to another to make them stop talking.

Words incorporated when signing under duress and not concurring entirely with import of document signed, and after stating grounds of non-concurrence.

The value or purchasing power of a dollar in a specified year carried forward or backward.

The lower or net heat of combustion for a fuel that assumes that all products of combustion are in a gaseous state. (See Net Heating Value below.)

An order to make haste.

Assets of a company which are regularly turned over including cash, work in progress and.

Purchase of a security without entitlement to current dividends, rights issues or scrip issues. .

On square-rigged ships, a small light square sail set above the skysail in fair weather. If the sail were triangular, it would be called a Skyscraper.

A document, relevant to life assurance, personal pension and unit trust products, which is given to.

An index of the share prices of the 250 largest companies (by market capitalisation) immediately.

Sudden and rapid flow of tide in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up in the form of a wave. also known as Eagre.