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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bridge house

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A term applied to an erection fitted on the upper or superstructure deck of a ship. The officers' quarters, staterooms and accommodations are usually located in the bridge house and the pilothouse is ...

fairwater

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A term applied to plating fitted around the ends of shaft tubes and strut barrels, and shaped to streamline the parts, thus eliminating abrupt changes in the water flow. Also applied to any casting ...

deck machinery

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A term applied to steering gears, capstans, windlasses, winches, and miscellaneous machinery located on the decks of a ship.

after peak bulkhead

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A term applied to the first main transverse bulkhead forward of the sternpost. This bulkhead forms the forward boundary of the after peak tank.

rake

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

A term applied to the fore-and-aft inclination from the vertical of a mast, smokestack, stem, etc. In river, and some ocean, barges, the end portion of the hull, in which the bottom rises from the ...