deckhouse
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deckhouses
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Origin of 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
With no pilothouse door to port, walk around the deckhouse to work lines.
From Time Magazine Archive
The galley, a functional U-shaped arrangement, is located not forward in the deckhouse, but aft, just inside the cockpit door.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two people were behind her, and out of sight around the corner of the deckhouse.
From Ruth Fielding In the Red Cross Doing Her Best For Uncle Sam by Alice B. Emerson
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 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
In a twinkling up went the battle flag, bulwarks fell down, lifeboats on decks collapsed, revealing guns, sides dropped from deckhouses, hen-coops, and other innocent-looking structures.
From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick
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
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