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.
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But I was comfortable in the extreme on the wide, leather-covered helm seat, protected from the winds and surrounded on all sides by a glass-enclosed deckhouse.
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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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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
The sticks were jerked out of her, deckhouses splintered to match-wood, rails ripped off, and, after the worst had passed, the covering boards began to go.
From The Red One by Jack London
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
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
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
Another mast became visible, with a double row of white deckhouses and a tier of boats between.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss