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deckhouse

[dek-haus] / ˈdɛkˌhaʊs /


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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

Spray was quickly swept away from the hull and kept away from the deckhouse windows by wide, slightly reversed chines, which extend from the bow to the transom corners.

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

The deck was awash in 3 ft. of water; to the roof of the deckhouse there clung five sick and starving men, Eric de Bisschop and his four-man crew.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the main deck, just abaft the foc'sle, was a deckhouse divided into compartments, forming the cook's galley and boats' crews' quarters, together with those belonging to the first and second mates.

From A Modern Buccaneer by Rolf Boldrewood

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

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

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

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

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




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