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
Four or more people can enjoy the views from the deckhouse on two long settees and a pair of captain's chairs.
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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Somebody lighted a blue flare on the deckhouse top, and the strong light showed the gig lurching on the broken heave on the yacht’s lee side.
From The Secret of the Reef by Bindloss, Harold
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 Bindloss, Harold
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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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 Mitford, Bertram
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 Kipling, Rudyard
The party between the deckhouses sways and reels.
From A Padre in France by Birmingham, George A.
