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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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auxiliary machinery
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
All machinery other than that required for main propulsion.
knuckle
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
An abrupt change in direction of the plating, frames, keel, deck, or other structure of a ship
booby hatch
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
An access hatch in a weather deck, protected by a hood from sea and weather. Also called a companionway.
companionway
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
An access hatchway in a deck, with a ladder leading below, generally for the crew's use.
spar deck
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
An anachronism used on the Great Lakes to indicate the weather or upper deck; so used because the term "main deck" is applied to the narrow plating forming the top of the usual ...
