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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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load waterline
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The line on the lines plan of a ship, representing the intersection of the ship's form with the plane of the water surface when the ship is floating at the summer freeboard draft ...
slip
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The linear distance between the pitch (or advance) and the actual distance the screw propeller moves straight ahead through the water.
broken stowage
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The spaces between and around cargo packages, including dunnage, and spaces not usable because of structural interferences.
flare
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The spreading out of the hull form from the central vertical plane, with increasing rapidity as it rises from the waterline to the rail; usually in the forebody. Also a night ...
stern
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The stern is the rear or after end part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. ...
deck stringer
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The strake of deck plating that runs along the outboard edge of a deck.
