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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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mooring bitt
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Short metal column (usually two) extending up from a base plate attached to the deck for the purpose of securing and belaying ropes, hawsers, etc. used to secure a ship to a pier ...
long tail boat
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Small craft propelled by a deck-mounted gasoline engine directly connected to an extended propeller shaft
sternpost
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Sometimes, the vertical part of the stern frame to which the rudder is attached.
well
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Space in the double bottom of a ship to which bilge water drains so that it may be pumped overboard; also space between partial superstructures.
holds
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
Spaces below deck for the stowage of cargo; the lowermost cargo compartments.
