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
A semi-cylindrical door connects the aft cockpit with the plush deckhouse, galley and the enclosed helm.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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.
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Up in the deckhouse, the skipper and navigator have wonderful, 360-degree views out large windows on all four sides.
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Then the ropes were cast off, and he sat down to open his letter under the deckhouse, as with a sonorous blast of her whistle the big white steamer swung out from the wharf.
From A Damaged Reputation by Harold Bindloss
Miller's men were building horse stalls, caulking the decks, resecuring the deckhouses, putting in bolts and various small fittings.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Robert Falcon Scott
Her great bow seemed to be rising out of the water like a headland, over which Frank could just see the tiers of white deckhouses, one mast, and the tall smokestack.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss
Between two of the deckhouses on the lower deck of this steamer is a narrow passage.
From A Padre in France by George A. Birmingham
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
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