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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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Naval architecture

starboard side

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

The right-hand side of a ship when looking forward. Opposite to port.

camber

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

The rise or crown of a deck, athwartship; also called round of beam.

fall

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

The rope used with blocks to make up a tackle. The end secured to the block is called the standing part; the opposite end, the hauling part.

rail

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

The rounded member at the upper edge of the bulwark, or the horizontal pipes or chains forming a fence-like railing fitted instead of a bulwark.

lee

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

The side away from the wind

longitudinal loading

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

The situation in which the weights along the length of a ship are not vertically in line with the buoyant supports

run

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

That part of a ship's underwater body aft of the parallel middle body or the point at which the slope of the sectional area curve is zero.

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