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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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door frame
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The frame surrounding a door opening on which the door seats.
center of buoyancy
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The geometric center of gravity of the immersed volume of the displacement or of the displaced water, determined solely by the shape of the underwater body of the ship. It is ...
center of flotation
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The geometric center of gravity of the water plane at which the vessel floats, forward or aft of the middle perpendicular. It is that point about which a vessel rotates ...
molded breadth
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The greatest breadth of the vessel measured from heel of frame on one side to heel of frame on other side.
hawse
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The hawse hole; also the part of a ship's bow in which the hawse holes for the anchor chains are located.
boat cradle
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The heavy wood or metal supports for a ship's boat, cut to fit the shape of the hull of the boat and usually faced with leather, In which the boat is stowed.
