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 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
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She carries a large upper deckhouse, but the absence of a flying bridge keeps her proportions in balance and yields a pleasing profile.
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The galley, a functional U-shaped arrangement, is located not forward in the deckhouse, but aft, just inside the cockpit door.
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On the main deck, just abaft the foc'sle, was a deckhouse divided into compartments, forming the cook's galley and boats' crews' quarters, together with those belonging to the first and second mates.
From A Modern Buccaneer by Boldrewood, Rolf
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 Verne, Jules
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 Kipling, Rudyard
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 Treanor, Thomas Stanley
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 Hodgson, Edward S.
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 Bindloss, Harold