Automatic Radar Plotting Aid

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).

Annual Machinery Survey.

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.

Total Observed Volume

Energy storage using electrochemical batteries. The three main applications for battery energy storage systems include spinning reserve at generating stations, load leveling at substations, and peak shaving on the customer side of the meter.

Anchor Handling Purposes.

Double-Bottom

Independent Tank, Wing

East Coast

Hertz

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

An air operated device for hoisting or pulling. Similar to a slusher or tugger or An engine for handling drafts of cargo secured on deck and fitted with drums on a horizontal axle.

Fuel Adjustment Factor

Association Internationale de Signalisation Maritime (see also IALA).

Anemometer which generates an electrical contact output with a frequency proportional to wind speed.

Auxiliary Management Information System.

American Society for Engineering Education.

Deals,battens an Boards.

The amount of energy (in electron volts) required to free an outer shell electron from its orbit about the nucleus to a free state, and thus promote it from the valence to the conduction level.