(1) A sailing vessel common in the Far East. It's flat-bottomed, high sterned, has square bows, and has two or three masts carrying lugsails. (2) Old and condemned rope.

(1) Injection of air or water under high pressure through a tube to the anode area for the purpose of purging the annular space and possibly correcting high resistance caused by gas blocking. (2) In connection with boilers or cooling towers, the process o ...

Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit.

A new disease that is sweeping modern Britain, thanks to business success, inheritance, rising.

Port Aft

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

The indicating part of an instrument. For example, the hand of a watch or the meniscus of a mercury column.

A fan mounted on an attic wall used to exhaust warm attic air to the outside.

A colorless, odorless, tasteless gas. A mixture of individual gases. The gaseous mixture surrounding the earth. Standard density of dry air free of carbon dioxide (0

General Lighthouse Authority

Integrated Bridge System

Marine Accident Reporting Scheme Created by the Nautical Institute NI, the report are anonymous and do not provide any name of persons, ships or companies. The are published monthly in the NI publication 'Seaways'.The reports can be Emailed to mars@nautin ...

An ice coating with a consistency intermediate between glaze and rime.

Underwriters Lab.

Newly Independent States

A metallic connection that provides electrical continuity between metal structures.

Personnel Data Decision System.

See bimetallic thermometer.

Medical First Aid Guide

Tender.