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deckhouse

[dek-haus] / ˈdɛkˌhaʊs /


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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 galley, a functional U-shaped arrangement, is located not forward in the deckhouse, but aft, just inside the cockpit door.

From Time Magazine Archive

Spray was quickly swept away from the hull and kept away from the deckhouse windows by wide, slightly reversed chines, which extend from the bow to the transom corners.

From Time Magazine Archive

With no pilothouse door to port, walk around the deckhouse to work lines.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was to lee of the deckhouse, and, seizing the hand-rail, tried to look about.

From The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss

Another mast became visible, with a double row of white deckhouses and a tier of boats between.

From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss

One of our crew groaned, but no other man uttered a sound, and we returned to the shelter of the deckhouses.

From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor

His eyes were half closed, for the white boats and deckhouses flashed dazzlingly in the strong light as the steamer lurched across the vivid swell of the Caribbean.

From Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss

The deckhouses were gone, as were every one of the boats except the motor launch, and even she was represented only by a shattered, fragmentary skeleton.

From The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise by Edward S. Hodgson

The party between the deckhouses sways and reels.

From A Padre in France by George A. Birmingham


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