Devices that interrupt high currents to protect electrical equipment from damage caused by current surges, e.g., from a short circuit or a lightning strike.

Tank cleaning may be required for one or more of the following reasons: 1. To carry clean ballast. 2. To gas free tanks for internal inspections, repairs or prior to entering dry dock.

A combination of electrical devices and conductors which, when connected together in a closed path, perform a particular function.

An oil tanker for carrying oil other than crude oil.

Claimed to be the safest and most efficient medium-range tanker, STENA PARIS is the first unit of a new series of P-MAX product tankers built by Brodosplit Shipyard.

Cost, Insurance, Freight. CIF designates the cargo is to be carried free of charge for the buyer; the seller pays all transportation costs.

1. A set of Suez Canal lights on the rear mast. They look as lights on the Christmas tree.

ANGELINA AMORETTI was built by Chinese shipyard Jiangsu Yangzijiang according to design from Kiel-based consultancy INEC GmbH.

Fluids coming out of completed wells which may consist of oil, water, gas, and condensable vapour.

One of several pieces of metal precisely fitted between machinery units and their foundations to ensure alignment, also made by pouring plastic material in place (cast resin chocks).

A guide for a mooring line, or steel towing wire which enables the line to pass through a ship bulwark or other barrier.

The first coat of the coating system applied in the shipyard after shop primer application.

Floors and bottom girders, side stringers and web frames, deck transverses and deck girders, vertical webs and horizontal stringers on bulkheads. Primary members support secondary stiffeners.

High molecular weight polymer which is used as a binder in some physically drying paints.

A sharp edged bend in a ship hull plating.

Equipment/systems essential for performance of primary bridge navigational functions: log, echo sounder, gyrocompass, radar, position-fixing system and electronic chart system.

The officer in the deck department next in rank to the Master. The chief mate takes over the position of the Master in his absence.

The senior engineer officer responsible for the satisfactory operation and maintenance of the main and auxiliary machinery and boiler plant on board ships.

The inner element designed to contain the cargo when the cargo containment system includes two barriers, (IGC CODE).

Equipment fitted with a hydraulic arm to enable inspectors and workers to approach inaccessible areas of a structure.