Marine Custody Transfer

Association of Mechanical Engineers.

A heat exchanger element enclosed in a boiler. Water is circulated with a pump through the jacket where it picks up heat from the combustion chamber after which the heated water circulates to heat distribution devices. A water jacket is also an enclosed w ...

Continuous Survey of Hull

The waters adjacent to a country over which it claims jurisdiction. also, Territorial Waters.

Latitude

A unit of pressure used principally in oceanography. One decibar (10' dynes/cm2) equals 0.1 bar. In the ocean, hydrostatic pressure in decibars very nearly equals the corresponding depth in meters.

Bulgarian Lloyd (Class Society)

The power output of a power plant that can be continuously produced.

Alongside of. Side by side. Side by side ; by the side of.

The inverse of electrochemical impedance.

Condition Assessment Survey

Navigation Bridge Systems.

General operators' certificate with regard to GMDSS

A power plant that is normally operated to generate a base load, and that usually operates at a constant load; examples include coal fired and nuclear fueled power plants.

York-Antwerp Rules 1950 Rules to settle General Average claims. Their use is normally stipulated in the B/L or C/P.

Vinyl Chloride Monomer. Gas occasionaly carried by LPG tankers. Highly cancerogen, heard that the German allows a crew to carry the gas only once in their carreer. Classified as flamable, toxic and polymerizable.

Inert Gas System

Whether In Port Or Not

The first stress in a material, usually less than the maximum attainable stress, at which an increase in strain occurs without an increase in stress. Only certain metals - those that exhibit a localized, heterogeneous type of transition from elastic defor ...