Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue System (USA).

Bulgarian Lloyd (Class Society)

An absolute instrument developed by K. Angstrom for the measurement of direct solar radiation. The radiation receiver station consists of two identical manganin strips whose temperatures are measured by attached thermocouples. One of the strips is shaded, ...

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 ...

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A small boat, highly ornamented, with a high rising stem and sternpost. Used on the canals of Venice, it is propelled by a man standing near the stern using a single oar

Association of Mechanical Engineers.

Timbers used to support the deck planking of a wooden ship; also for supporting hatches.

Continuous Survey of Hull

The main sense in which the term asset is used is to describe anything owned by an.

A procedure for determining the primary elements in a substance (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and ash).

Intergranular corrosion of an alloy, usually stabilized stainless steel, along a line adjoining or in contact with a weld after heating into the sensitization temperature range.

The electrical resistance offered by a material to the flow of current, times the cross-sectional area of current flow and per unit length of current path; the reciprocal of the conductivity. Also called resistivity or specific resistance.

Hydrostatic Balanced Loading. Method of loading large oil tankers which allows to extends the lives of tankers from 25 to 30 years with regard to MARPOL phase-out provision.

ZUMACA. Small sailing coaster from the River Plate estuary and the adjacent waters of Brazil. (Kerchove)

Value Added Tax

Tons Per Inch (Immersion)

In Lieu of Dry Dock, Class survey, mostly underwater, which allows the shipowner to postpone a dry dock.

Condition Assessment Survey

Pure Car Carrier