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
More contemporary in style than its 38-foot predecessor, the 39 SX shows beautifully curved glass windows in the aft deckhouse corners, as well as sealed windows all around to eliminate leaks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The deckhouse, painted Porsche silver, ends at the mast, leaving a wide foredeck dotted with flush-mounted hatches and bordered by reassuringly high lifelines forward.
From Time Magazine Archive
"What you want?" shouted a burly figure, standing aft behind the deckhouse.
From White Fire by John Oxenham
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 Rudyard Kipling
The party between the deckhouses sways and reels.
From A Padre in France by George A. Birmingham
The deckhouses were gone, as were every one of the boats except the motor launch, and even she was represented only by a shattered, fragmentary skeleton.
From The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise by Edward S. Hodgson
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
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
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