SHIPPING ABBREVIATION -F-

SHIPPING ABBREVIATION     -F-

• f. — full load (displacement).
• Falk-DeL — Falk & De Laval,
• Falk-FB — Falk & Farrel-Birmingham.
• Falk-GE — Falk & General Electric.
• Falk-Wes — Falk & Westinghouse.
• FAST — Fast At Sea Transfer Equipment.
• FB — Farrel-Birmingham Co., New York.
• FB-Falk — Farrel-Birmingham & Falk.
• FB-Wes — Farrel-Birmingham & Westinghouse.
• FBM — fleet ballistic missile.
• FDI — fast deployment logistics ship.
• Fed — Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Kearny, New Jersey.
• Fiat — Fiat-San Giorgio, Ltd., Turin, Italy.
• Flot — flotilla.
• FltBtry — floating battery.
• FM — Fairbanks Morse diesel, reverse gear drive (manufactured by Fairbanks Morse & Co., Beloit, Wisconsin).
• Fore — Fore River Ship and Engine Co., Quincy, Massachusetts.
• Fr. — Frigate.
• FRAM — Fleet Rehabilitation And Modernization.
• FSch. — F. Schlebau Gmbh., Elbing, Germany.
• f.t. — fire-tube (Scotch-type boiler).
• FW — Foster Wheeler Corp., Mountaintop, Pennsylvania.
• FWASDR. — Foster Wheeler 8-Drum. Express-Type Boiler.
• FWH — Foster Wheeler Header-Type Boiler.
• FWPFS — Foster Wheeler Pressure-Fixed Supercharged Boiler.
• FWSFD — Foster Wheeler Single-Furnace D-Type Boiler.
• FWSHC — Foster Wheeler Superheat Control Boiler.
• FW2DR — Foster Wheeler 2-Drum Boiler,
• FW2DRS — Foster Wheeler 2-Drum Superheat Control Boiler