Acronym Reference?

Getting to know the many acronyms used in naval architecture and marine engineering is always a challenge for me, as an engineer whose background is in other fields. I've looked around for a suitable online acronym reference but haven't yet found one. Can anyone recommend such a reference?

Acronymfinder.com and allacronyms.com have some of the more common ones, but they usually don't have the more esoteric ones. I suspect it will have to be a marine-specific reference.

A related idea: Could we build such a reference here on boatdesign.net? The forum doesn't seem to include a wiki or other such function, but perhaps it could be added?

 

Here is the ITTC preferred standard for symbols.
https://ittc.info/media/9882/alphabetic-ittc-symbols-list-2021.pdf
And here for terms.
https://www.iims.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Glossary-of-ship-and-boat-building-terms.pdf
Acronyms are a bit harder because anyone can make up their own TLA (three letter acronym). For acronyms and abbreviations on hardware, drawings, and in tech manuals; the US Navy did have a standard.
https://www.mscorphab.com/DRAWINGS/...bbreviations on Navy Ship Design Drawings.pdf

 

Those are great, @jehardiman , thanks very much. I had found the ITTC standard but it was behind a paywall so I couldn't use it. That PDF will be very handy.

You're right about acronyms. A lot of them are ad hoc and may not even be the same from person to person, just in this forum. But I'm sure that navy ship design reference will help.

 

Indeed, for example I sometimes refer to @Ad Hoc as AH the NA

 

I love acronyms. Being retired Coast Guard I have heard thousands of them. Some really funny, some not so. NAVCOMGRUTRNPAC. One of my favorites because it is easily changed to something I can't say here. Anyway every profession has it's own language and acronyms are part of that. A good friend and colleague of mine Peter Ball (an NA, may he RIP) used to say we go to college to learn the big boy terms so we can speak the language.

 

NAVCOMGRUTRNPAC...Navy Command Group Training Pacific?....Just guessing. Sometimes it is like a Mason handshake..."Yeah, I worked with SDG1"...