marine engineer
noun
An engineer who designs, operates, and maintains machinery and equipment used in ships, offshore installations, or elsewhere at sea: Gray served as a marine engineer in the Royal Navy...
- Then he got a job as a marine engineer, including a stint in the Middle East.
- Navel architects and marine engineers claim the Titanic was moving at an estimated speed of 22 knots before it collided with the iceberg.
- "It was absolutely spectacular," said Lt Chatterjee, Exeter's Deputy Marine Engineer Officer.
Derivatives
marine engineering
- But thereafter the industry declined and along with it the linked supplying sectors of marine engineering, iron, steel and coal.
- Because of their inherent resistance to corrosion these alloys find wide application in marine engineering and in the petroleum, oil and chemical industries.
- He is interested in boats and hopes to study marine engineering in Cork Institute of Technology next autumn.