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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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radio room
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A room, usually sound-proofed, used for sending and receiving radio messages.
brace
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A rope attached to the yard arm, used to alter the position of the yard arm in a horizontal plane. The operation is known as trimming the sail.
fast
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A rope or chain used to moor a vessel to a wharf, designated in accordance with the end of the boat with which it is used as bow-fast or stern-fast. See Painter.
gantline
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A rope reeving through a single block aloft and used for hoisting or lowering, rigging, drying clothing and hammocks, etc.
girtiine
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A rope reeving through a single block aloft and used for hoisting or lowering, rigging, drying clothing and hammocks, etc.
ridge rope
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A rope running through the eyes at the heads of the awning stanchions to which the edge of an awning is hauled out and stopped. The term “center ridge rope” is applied to the rope ...
stern chock
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A round or oval casting, or frame, inserted in the bulwark plating at the stern of the vessel through which the mooring hawser or warping lines are passed.
