Emergency.

General Council of British Shipping

Privilege to use the rate producing the lowest charge.

International Bunker Industry Association Ltd

Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt.

Change of electrode potential with respect to a reference value. Often the free corrosion potential is used as the reference value. The change may be caused, for example, by the application of an external electrical current or by the addition of an oxidan ...

The maximum stress that presumably leads to fatigue fracture in a specified number of stress cycles. If the stress is not completely reversed. the value of the mean stress. the minimum stress, or the stress ratio should also be stated. Compare with endura ...

A mercury barometer in which the lower mercury surface is larger in area than the upper surface. The basic construction of a cistern barometer is as follows: A glass tube one meter in length, sealed at one end is filled with mercury, and then inverted. Th ...

A mast that is stepped (placed) on the deck of a boat rather than through the boat and keel stepped. The mast of a deck stepped boat is usually easier to raise and lower and are usually intended for lighter conditions than keel stepped boats.

The fracture toughness determined under dynamic loading conditions; it is used as an approximation of KIc for very tough materials.

Nautical name for an argumentative person.

Underwriters Lab.

A measure of proportion by weight, equivalent to one unit weight of a material per million (106) unit weights of compound. One part per million is equivalent to l mg/g

South Korea (Flag)

Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (Japanese Class Society)

Public Resolution which requires that U.S. Government financed cargoes (Eximbank) must be shipped 100% in U.S. flag ships, but that the requirement may be waived up to 50% in some cases.

A subtle, diumal component of the wind velocity leading to a diumal shift of the wind or turning of the wind with the sun, produced bv the east-to-west progression of daytime surface heating.

Norwegian classification society.

Financial Intermediaries Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association The self regulating organisation originally responsible for governing financial advisers. Became.

Sailing on a run with the wind coming over the stern from the same side as the boom (danger of jibing).