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 galley, a functional U-shaped arrangement, is located not forward in the deckhouse, but aft, just inside the cockpit door.
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 side windows in the deckhouse lower electrically, like those on your Ferrari, to make it easier to see aft without leaving the helm.
From Time Magazine Archive
The galley fire was washed out half the time, the deckhouse we lived in was flooded continually; for weeks we hadn’t a rag of dry clothes, and very seldom a plateful of warm food.
From The Secret of the Reef by Harold Bindloss
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 Thomas Stanley Treanor
The colleagues made their way along the deck, stopping in the shadow of the deckhouses to listen if there was any sound.
From Robur the Conqueror by Jules Verne
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
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 party between the deckhouses sways and reels.
From A Padre in France by George A. Birmingham
