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 deckhouse, painted Porsche silver, ends at the mast, leaving a wide foredeck dotted with flush-mounted hatches and bordered by reassuringly high lifelines forward.

From Time Magazine Archive

And there�s the same sense of balance and proportion between the deckhouse with its large windows and the low-profile trunk cabin on the well-laid-out foredeck that has made this design a modern-day classic.

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

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 Bindloss, Harold