Maritime Environment Protection CommitteeIMO branch dealing, among other, with the construction of tankers. The number of the meeting is often added to the acronym so that in the Autumn 2000 the next meeting will be MEPC46.

Multipurpose Work Boat.

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

Aluminium Alloy Pleasure Yacht.

The angle between true south and the point on the horizon directly below the sun.

A method to trap liquids or gases by causing them to penetrate into the absorbent material.

Same as electromotive force series.

An agency of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture that makes loans to states and territories in the U.S. for rural electrification and the furnishing of electric energy to persons in rural areas who do not receive central station service. It also furnishes and i ...

Established the standard basis for adjusting general average and stated the rules for adjusting claims.

A fractographic term describing ductile fracture that occurs through the formation and coalescence of microvoids along the fracture path. The fracture surface of such a ductile fracture appears dimpled when observed at high magnification and usually is mo ...

Low Pressure

Cylinder.

A rope is fagged when the end is untwisted.

The cardinal points of the compass, i.e. north, south, east, west.

Heavy longitudinal timbers fastened over the keelson. The timbers of the bow and stern are fastened to the deadwood.

A sunshine recorder of the type in which the time scale is supplied by a chronograph. It consists of two bulbs, one of which is blackened, which communicate through a glass tube of small diameter. The tube is partially filled with mercury and contains two ...

To stop a boat and maintain position (with some leeway) by balancing rudder and sail to prevent forward movement, a boat stopped this way is "hove to"; such as when in heavy seas. The idea is to bring the wind onto the weather bow and hold the ship in tha ...

Weather Working Days

A small tube or capillary filled with electrolyte, terminating close to the metal surface under study, and used to provide an ionically conducting path without diffusion between an electrode under study and a reference electrode.

Aluminium Alloy, High Speed Passenger.