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 galley, a functional U-shaped arrangement, is located not forward in the deckhouse, but aft, just inside the cockpit door.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A huge wave had smashed into the forecastle deckhouse and buried it under tons of water.
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The side windows in the deckhouse lower electrically, like those on your Ferrari, to make it easier to see aft without leaving the helm.
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The galley fire was washed out half the time, the deckhouse we lived in was flooded continually; for weeks we hadn’t a rag of dry clothes, and very seldom a plateful of warm food.
From The Secret of the Reef 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
In a twinkling up went the battle flag, bulwarks fell down, lifeboats on decks collapsed, revealing guns, sides dropped from deckhouses, hen-coops, and other innocent-looking structures.
From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick
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
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
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