Watertight

Intergranular corrosion, usually of stainless steels or certain nickel-base alloys, that occurs as the result of sensitization in the heat-affected zone during the welding operation.

Australia (flag)

A small jib set high on the headstay of a double headsail rig.

Asphalt Tanker.

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

The underside of the deck, viewed from below the ceiling.

A manifest that lists all cargo carried on a specific vessel voyage.

Barge, Liquefied Nitrogen maximum pressure 10kg/cm

Fast Rescue Craft

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.

Vessel Safety and Operations Audit

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

Best Manufacturing Practices.(US navy program).

International Chamber of Shipping

A situation where an individual is incapable of settling his/her debts and has been served a.

Federal Water Pollution Control Act

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

The weight of oxygen taken up mainly as a result of the oxidation of the constituents of a sample of water by biological action; expressed as the number of parts per million of oxygen taken up by the sample from water originally saturated with air, usuall ...

American Institute of Merchant Shipping.