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Could you write down the Kanji clearly? I'm having a hard time reading it because it's so scratched and banged up. If you could do that, then I could help you.

Kiriain, I'm pretty sure the OP is asking because they can't read kanji. ;)

It's written horizontal right-to-left. First line:
舎捨吐筒喞チツレビ及油重
(heavy oil and ？？ pump discharge room - assuming 吐捨 comes from 吐き捨てる)

bottom line is a bit hard to read but I think it is:
一分四吋九呎七十直垂一分四吋九呎七十ヒ沿側舷
along ship 17 feet 9 inches and a quarter, vertical 17 feet 9 inches and a quarter.

Wow that's awesome thank you so much! I doubt i could have written them down any better lol.

Did you seriously take a photo of your computer screen? Why not just upload the image itself?

Anyway, my best guess for the first line is

弇捨吐筒喞ヂルビ及油重

but I'm not 100% sure about the katakana. No idea on a translation; this is very obscure/archaic Japanese.

On the second line I guess I agree with jenlit's transcription, but I don't think that that's an accurate translation (it's 七十 not 十七, for a start). Not that I can come up with something better.

Thanks, and yes my dad seriously did photo the screen with his Android then emailed it to me, no idea why lol.

It is 17, because you have to read from right to left. Jenlit's translation looks pretty sound, as far as my knowledge extends.

But louis has got the katakana in the top line correct, as it must be 'bilge', making:
'heavy oil and bilge pump discharge room'.

Ah, sorry, I failed to read jenlit's post properly. :3

I think that my first kanji more closely resembles the one in the image than 舎 though.

It could well be 弇, as this certainly seems to be connected with this kind of liquid system.

I found some discussion here about 止水弇 here:
http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1224060792