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
But I was comfortable in the extreme on the wide, leather-covered helm seat, protected from the winds and surrounded on all sides by a glass-enclosed deckhouse.
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
A huge wave had smashed into the forecastle deckhouse and buried it under tons of water.
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
The party between the deckhouses sways and reels.
From A Padre in France by Birmingham, George A.
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 Scott, Robert Falcon
One of our crew groaned, but no other man uttered a sound, and we returned to the shelter of the deckhouses.
From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Treanor, Thomas Stanley
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 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
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