Low Water Ordinary Near Tides.

A discount allowed for damage or overcharge in the payment of a bill.

Final date for delivering cargo to a liner ships.

The order to tack the ship

American Petroleum Institute

Auxiliary Water-Tube Boiler Survey.

An order to haul away or to heave around a capstan (pull).

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

Admiralty Raster Chart Service (U.K. Hydrographic office)

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.

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

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.

Vapor Recovery System

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

British Marine Equipment Association

A machinery device, which is applied for clipping and receiving/rending the electric cables during cable-laying under water.

The charge made for the transportation of freight.

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.

Combination of two power plant turbine cycles utilizing two different working fluids for power production. The waste heat from the first turbine cycle provides the heat energy for the operation of the second turbine, thus providing higher overall system e ...

The order to go aloft (go up above).