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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stock anchor

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

An anchor fitted at the upper end with a stout cross member running at 90 degrees to the line of the flukes.

stiffener

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

An angle, T-bar, channel, built-up section, etc., used to stiffen plating of a bulkhead, etc.

telegraph

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

An apparatus, either electrical or mechanical, for transmitting orders, as from a ship's bridge to the engine room, steering gear room, or elsewhere about the ship.

An approximate measure of a vessel's total volume. Under vessel measurement rules of various nations, the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal, a measure of the internal volume of spaces within a vessel ...

gallows

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

An approximately horseshoe shaped structure used to raise nets or paravanes on a fishing vessel.

net tonnage

Shipbuilding; Naval architecture

An approximation to a vessel's money-earning volume. Net tonnage according to canal rules is derived from gross tonnage by deducting an allowance for the propelling machinery space and certain other ...