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What's a sacrificial anode, sagging sampson-post or scum valve?
Featured terms
Lifeboat
A motor-propelled survival craft carried by a ship for use in emergency. A ship should be its own best lifeboat but there are sometimes situations where abandonment of the ship is unavoidable.
Cold ironing
Connecting ships to the onshore power supply and shutt down the gensets in order to decrease exhaust emissions and noise.
Curve of resistance
A curve showing the resistance of a ship or its model to towing as obtained by experiments in a model basin. The model is run at various speeds and its resistance is shown for each speed.