deckhouse
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Unlike its sister ships, the Zumwalt and the Monsoor, the LBJ will have a deckhouse that’s made of steel, not composite materials, to save money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2019
The deckhouse, painted Porsche silver, ends at the mast, leaving a wide foredeck dotted with flush-mounted hatches and bordered by reassuringly high lifelines forward.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A semi-cylindrical door connects the aft cockpit with the plush deckhouse, galley and the enclosed helm.
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The deck was awash in 3 ft. of water; to the roof of the deckhouse there clung five sick and starving men, Eric de Bisschop and his four-man crew.
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The galley fire was washed out half the time, the deckhouse we lived in was flooded continually; for weeks we hadn’t a rag of dry clothes, and very seldom a plateful of warm food.
From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss
A hundred times the crash of the wave on the ship's side was followed by the roar of the water, as it swept the decks and raved round the deckhouses.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
The colleagues made their way along the deck, stopping in the shadow of the deckhouses to listen if there was any sound.
From Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne
Captain Tangye had snugged down his ship for the night: ropes were coiled, deckhouses padlocked, the spokes of the wheel covered against dew and frost.
From The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Out in the stream, a small steamer with a black funnel and a row of white deckhouses moved seawards with the tide.
From Wyndham's Pal by Harold Bindloss
Her great bow seemed to be rising out of the water like a headland, over which Frank could just see the tiers of white deckhouses, one mast, and the tall smokestack.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss