Bulk Carrier Strengthened for Heavy Cargoes, Nos 1&3 Holds may be empty.

General Conditions

Corrosion in which zinc is selectively leached from zinc-containing alloys. Most commonly found in copper-zinc alloys containing less than 83% copper after extended service in water containing dissolved oxygen; the parting of zinc from an alloy (in some b ...

1.Marine Evacuation System.2.Mobile Earth Station

The group of bits which a computer processes as a unit; often, 8 bits.

Stern To Manifold (Distance)

The pressure of the air at sea level; one standard atmosphere at zero degrees centigrade is equal to 14.695 pounds per square inch (1.033 kilograms per square centimeter).

Abbreviation for "General Department Store Merchandise." A classification of commodities that includes goods generally shipped by mass-merchandise companies. This commodity structure occurs only in service contracts.

Bahamas Oil Refining Corp.

Continuously updating the weighting of past prices for smoothing or forecasting.

Same as electromotive force series.

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

A sliding or hinged opening in the deck, providing people with access to the cabin or space below; an opening in a boat's deck fitted with a watertight cover.

U.S. Customs' master computer system, "Automated Commercial Systems."

Lying almost beam on to strong winds and being driven before them while under bare poles (without sails up). The helm is lashed so as to point the vessel into the wind, but it continually falls away because of the pressure of the wind. It is a technique f ...

National Bureau of Standards (see NIST

St. Vincent & The Grenadines (Flag)

European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service

In Jeffreys' classification, a wind for which the pressure force exactly balances the viscous force, in which the vertical transfers of momentum predominate.

A natural or synthetic polymer, which at room temperature can be stretched repeatedly to at least twice its original length, and which after removal of the tensile load will immediately and forcibly return to approximately its original length.