A sail having battens that run the full horizontal length of the sail.

The upper deck rail along both sides of a vessel to prevent anyone on board from falling overboard.

This type of insurance offers the shipper the broadest coverage available, covering against all losses that may occur in transit.

An all around white light displayed at night by a ship when she is anchored.

To schedule and control the generation and delivery of electric power.

(FSAVC) An employee's pension scheme which is additional to but independent from his occupational pension.

Waves breaking over rocks or shoals. A wave that approaches shallow water, causing the wave height to exceed the depth of the water it is in, in effect tripping it. The wave changes from a smooth surge in the water to a cresting wave with water tumbling d ...

The westerly distance in an arc from Aries, measured as an angle at the pole or as the intercepted arc of the equinoctial between the hour angle of Aries and the hour angle of the body.

Electromagnetic energy transmitted from the sun (solar radiation). The amount that reaches the earth is equal to one billionth of total solar energy generated, or the equivalent of about 420 trillion kilowatt-hours.

The buying or selling of underlying instruments such as commodities, securities and currencies etc.

A commitment made by a person to be answerable for the debts or liabilities of.

A point through which all buoyant forces on an immersed hull are assumed to act.

Abbreviation for "Standard Transportation Commodity Code."

The maximum rope tension (in kilonewtons), measured at the drum commences to rotate in the direction of haul, the prime mover being set for maximum torque under automatic control and the rope being wound on the drum in a single layer.

The approach to investing which aims to invest in fast-growing companies which are rapidly.

A tube inside a domestic water heater that distributes the cold water from the cold water supply line into the lower area of the water heater where heating occurs.

Low or medium Btu content gas, composed mainly of carbon monoxide, nitrogen(2), and hydrogen(2) made by the gasification of wood or coal.

An aneroid barometer with a scale graduated in altitude instead of pressure units.

The measurement of the angle between the bottom of a boat and its widest beam. A vessel with a 0

Of a system (or part thereof) is its condition at an instant of time as described or measured by its properties.