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Post by Scott on Sept 18, 2006 19:55:43 GMT -8
Hope you guys can help me out. What does the F/M mean? It's always been M/V.. but now on the back of the new postcards it says "F/M" before the name.
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Post by Doug on Sept 18, 2006 20:11:15 GMT -8
I can't find "FM" anywhere as a ship prefix on the internet...perhaps it was a typo?
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Post by Scott on Sept 18, 2006 20:37:16 GMT -8
Here's some FM abbreviations from www.acronymfinder.com ... see which one make the most sense: FM - Farm to Market road (Texas) FM - Full Moon FM - Family Room FM - Fecal Matter FM - Force Module FM - Fat Man (atomic bomb) FM - Forum Moderator FM - Failure Mode FM - Fairbanks-Morse FM - Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service FM - Finance Manager FM - Flight Model FM - Fukai Mori (Japanese song, Inuyasha closing theme) FM - Flying Monkeys FM - Front Midship (Nissan) FM - Factory Model FM - Friable Material |
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Post by WettCoast on Sept 18, 2006 20:56:43 GMT -8
FM = Factory Mutual
FM = Frequency Modulation as opposed to Amplitude Modulation from where we get FM and AM radio. As for ships I don't know?
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Post by BrianWilliams on Sept 18, 2006 22:22:28 GMT -8
Yike! F/M is something very new to us all. I tried a few short searches, including Transport Canada, Lloyd's and Bureau Veritas -- came up empty. Wikipedia has a dandy list of civilian and military designations -- see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_prefix but no F/M. Cascade! Please ask your colleagues to answer this one. It's true, our plethora of ship designations are mostly obsolete. "SS" is almost an historical oddity, though schoolkids often think any ship is "SS something.." MV (motor vessel) describes almost every ship working today. T/S and T/V (both mean steam turbine, usually with electric final drives) are survivors. I await more news on the F/M story. My guess? Ferry/Marine. That would make sense, but RoPax (roll-on-roll-off passenger vessel is more descriptive). |
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Post by NMcKay on Sept 19, 2006 6:59:29 GMT -8
F/V FERRY - PASSENGER/VEHICLE
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Post by Retrovision on Sept 19, 2006 23:48:48 GMT -8
The only recent change that I can think of to the major vessels of the fleet, below the vehicle decks, is the new fuel consumption regulator (F/M = Fuel-Managed?)... I doubt that has to do with it, though.
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Post by Retrovision on Sept 21, 2006 22:47:36 GMT -8
Update: According to a crew member in the gift shop of the SoBC, the F/M stands for Motor Ferry, or Ferry/Motor... She wasn't absolutely sure, but was fairly sure that was the case.
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Post by BrianWilliams on Oct 6, 2006 2:48:55 GMT -8
"F/M stands for Motor Ferry"
A good assumption, but it leads to jokes like "F/U Queen Of Oak Bay"
"Ferry/unpowered" ... BCF, let's stick to MV.
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