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
The boat deck provides shelter for walking the wide side decks on both sides of the deckhouse, as well as for relaxing or dining in the aft cockpit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Up in the deckhouse, the skipper and navigator have wonderful, 360-degree views out large windows on all four sides.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suddenly from the entrance of the deckhouse ran a hatless figure.
From Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by James Barnes
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
These, as well as the end of the ship's navigating bridge and the gangway, were illuminated by, he imagined, a lamp on the side of one of the deckhouses.
From The Pit Prop Syndicate by Freeman Wills Crofts
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 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
