Naval architecture

Naval architecture

The engineering science dealing with the design, construction, maintenance and operation of marine vessels and structures.

Industry: Shipbuilding

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transverse framing

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A system of hull stiffening in which the stiffening members run across the deck, or decks, down the sides, and across the bottom.

A system of piping generally located in the holds or lower compartments of a ship and connected to pumps. This system is used for pumping overboard accumulations of water in holds and compartments, ...

steaming profile

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A systematic outline of the power requirements during a typical voyage.

mast

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A tall vertical or raked structure, usually of circular section, located on the centerline of a ship and used to carry navigation lights, radio antennae and, often, cargo booms. In a sailing vessel ...

skin tank

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A tank for liquid cargo or ballast one or more of whose boundaries is the side or bottom plating of the hull.

trimming tank

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A tank located near the ends of a ship. Seawater (or fuel oil) is carried in such tanks as necessary to change trim.

topside tank

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A tank, triangular in section, usually used for ballast in bulk carriers, formed by the deck outboard of the hatches, the upper shell plating and a longitudinal bulkhead sloping around 45 deg.