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
Up in the deckhouse, the skipper and navigator have wonderful, 360-degree views out large windows on all four sides.
From Time Magazine Archive
A huge wave had smashed into the forecastle deckhouse and buried it under tons of water.
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
Dan'l leaned against the deckhouse behind Mauger, and devoted himself amicably to the task of instructing the man.
From The Sea Bride by Ben Ames Williams
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
These, as well as the end of the ship's navigating bridge and the gangway, were illuminated by, he imagined, a lamp on the side of one of the deckhouses.
From The Pit Prop Syndicate by Freeman Wills Crofts
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
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
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
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