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Naval architecture
The engineering science dealing with the design, construction, maintenance and operation of marine vessels and structures.
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gunwale
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A term applied to the line where a weather deck stringer intersects the shell. The upper edge of the side of an open boat.
manger
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A term applied to the manger-like space immediately forward of the manger plate which is fitted just abaft the hawsepipes to prevent water entering through the pipes from running aft over the deck.
countersink
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A term applied to the operation of cutting the sides of a drilled or punched hole into the shape of the frustum of a cone. Also applied to the tool by which countersinking is done.
launching
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A term applied to the operation of transferring a vessel from the building ways into the water. End launching and side launching methods are employed; the former method is used when the vessel is ...
stringer plates
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A term applied to the outboard plates on any deck, or to the plates attached to the top flanges of a tier of beams at the side of a vessel.
ceiling
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
A term applied to the planking with which the inside of a vessel is sheathed. Also applied to the sheet metal or wood sheathing in quarters and storerooms.
