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Shipbuilding
The design, construction and maintenance of both commercial and military ships and floating vessels in shipyards or other marine facilities.
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hatch covers
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Covers for closing the hatchway, in cargo ships usually made of wood planks in sections that can be handled by the crew. In naval ships, steel hatch covers. The wood cover is made ...
displacement curves
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Curves drawn to give the displacement of the vessel at varying drafts. Usually these curves are drawn to show the displacement in either salt or fresh water, or in both.
bonjean curves
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Curves of areas of transverse sections of a ship. The curves of the moments of these areas above the base line are sometimes included.
bow lines
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Curves representing vertical sections parallel to the central longitudinal vertical plane of the bow end of a ship. Similar curves in the aft part of a hull are called buttock ...
fair curves
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Curves which do not in any portions of their entire lengths show such changes of direction as to mark those portions as out of harmony in any respect with the curves as a whole or ...
jury
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A term applied to temporary structures, such as masts, rudders, etc., used in an emergency.
gunwale bar
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A term applied to the bar connecting a stringer plate on a weather deck to the sheer strake.
