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 engine room, accessed through the deckhouse sole, shows typical Grand Banks quality.
From Time Magazine Archive
A huge wave had smashed into the forecastle deckhouse and buried it under tons of water.
From Time Magazine Archive
A semi-cylindrical door connects the aft cockpit with the plush deckhouse, galley and the enclosed helm.
From Time Magazine Archive
A nearby deck-lamp shone in the mist like a nebula-ringed planet, shedding paltry light upon moist timbers and begrudgingly revealing a pale turban as it disappeared around a projection of the deckhouse.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey
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
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 black paint was scarred and peeling higher up, the white deckhouses and boats had grown dingy, and there was about her a poverty-stricken look.
From The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss
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
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
