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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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load waterline
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The line on the lines plan of a ship, representing the intersection of the ship's form with the plane of the water surface when the ship is floating at the summer freeboard draft or at the designed ...
slip
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The linear distance between the pitch (or advance) and the actual distance the screw propeller moves straight ahead through the water.
broken stowage
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The spaces between and around cargo packages, including dunnage, and spaces not usable because of structural interferences.
flare
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The spreading out of the hull form from the central vertical plane, with increasing rapidity as it rises from the waterline to the rail; usually in the forebody. Also a night distress signal.
stern
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The stern is the rear or after end part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. The stern lies ...
deck stringer
Shipbuilding; Naval architecture
The strake of deck plating that runs along the outboard edge of a deck.
