Germanischer Lloyd (German Class Society)

Light Displacement Ton

Binary Coded Decimal. A coding system in which each decimal digit from 0 to 9 is represented by a 4-digit binary number.

Annual Machinery Survey.

Automatic Radar Plotting Aid

Cabins, offices (for carrying out ship's business), 4 hospitals, mess rooms, recreation rooms (such as lounges, smoke rooms, cinemas, libraries and hobbies and games rooms) and open recreation areas to be used by seafarers.

The order to tack the ship

A device used to control the voltage in a fluorescent lamp.

American Society for Engineering Education.

British Marine Equipment Association

Client Account Management System.

The measure of the efficiency of fluorescent lamp ballasts. It is the relative light output divided by the power input.

Visual Display Unit

An octagonal shaped shelter that originated in Mongolia, and traditionally made from leather or canvas for easy transportation.

Stand watch, during which they steer the vessel, stand lookout, assist the mate on watch and make rounds of the ship to insure that all is in order. They also tie up and untie the vessel to and from the dock and maintain the equipment on deck.

A compartment in which fuel is stored; fuel consumed by the engines of a ship

Anchor Handling Purposes.

To lay the head yards abox in a square rigged sailing vessel was to lay them square to the foremast in order to heave-to.

1.All purposes.2.Additional premium.3.Accounts payable

Free of Capture and SeizureInsurance term. Used until 1982 in all marine insurance contracts to refer to the war exclusion clause. Discontinued in the UK cargo insurance market in 1982 and in the hull insurance market in 1983 (BIMCO).