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 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
The engine room, accessed through the deckhouse sole, shows typical Grand Banks quality.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hyphenation of the words "deckhouse", "deckload", "rawhide", and "sternsheets", and the use of an accent in the word "Bolivar", was inconsistent in the original text.
From The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss
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
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
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
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