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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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stock anchor
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
An anchor fitted at the upper end with a stout cross member running at 90 degrees to the line of the flukes.
stiffener
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
An angle, T-bar, channel, built-up section, etc., used to stiffen plating of a bulkhead, etc.
telegraph
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
An apparatus, either electrical or mechanical, for transmitting orders, as from a ship's bridge to the engine room, steering gear room, or elsewhere about the ship.
gross tonnage
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
An approximate measure of a vessel's total volume. Under vessel measurement rules of various nations, the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal, a measure of the internal volume of ...
gallows
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
An approximately horseshoe shaped structure used to raise nets or paravanes on a fishing vessel.
net tonnage
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
An approximation to a vessel's money-earning volume. Net tonnage according to canal rules is derived from gross tonnage by deducting an allowance for the propelling machinery ...
