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
With no pilothouse door to port, walk around the deckhouse to work lines.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
The side windows in the deckhouse lower electrically, like those on your Ferrari, to make it easier to see aft without leaving the helm.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the word of command one of the plates of the perpendicular side of the deckhouse slid out of the way as quickly as a flash.
From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick
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 night air, however, and the weird eloquence of the utter solitude, the disordered deck, the great towering funnel, the ruined deckhouses, the serpentine lapping of the water, roused Mona from her semi-lethargy.
From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Bertram Mitford
The sticks were jerked out of her, deckhouses splintered to match-wood, rails ripped off, and, after the worst had passed, the covering boards began to go.
From The Red One by Jack London
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
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