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SBS

Shipboard System.

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FYF

Five Year Fee.

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Arranges shipments for customers usually break bulk. Does not actually carry the cargo or conduct business for the ship.

A reaching headsail that has a big draft and is usually light-weight

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Get away from the ship, as in an emergency.

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API

American Petroleum Institute

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VDU

Visual Display Unit

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Measured from the most forward part of the fore end to the most after part of the after end of the hull.

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CTL

1.Constructive Total Loss. After an incident such as collision, grounding, fire, if it is too expensive to repair the ship cannot, the insurance consider it is lost. The vessel is abandoned or sold as scrap.2.Coastal Trade Limit service.

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The order to go aloft (go up above).

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A piece of wood placed across the head of a boat's rudder, with a rope attached to each end, by which the boat is steered.

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A water-temperature thermometer provided with an insulated container around the bulb. It is lowered into the sea on a line until it has had time to reach the temperature of the surface water, then withdrawn and read. The insulated water surrounding the bu ...

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Relating to dry cargo lifted on/off in one piece by cranes or derricks.

BEL

Belgium (flag)

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Final date for delivering cargo to a liner ships.

The order to tack the ship

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BKN

Broken Up.

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1. Loose, not on moorings or towline.2.Floating at random; not fastened by and kind of mooring; at the mercy of winds and currents; loose from normal anchorage. A vessel is said to be adrift when she breaks away from her moorings, warfs, and so on. t – ...

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VRS

Vapor Recovery System

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FY

Fiscal Year

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