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Aft of the stair, a passageway ran across the vessel, aft of which is the stack casing and a well that opened down into the engine room, where the main engine could be seen by passengers on the main deck. Food service counters were placed at the aft end of the main deck, surrounded by open spaces, and a pair of stairs leading to decks above.
Bradley declared that the new ship was "the last word in freighter construction." [5] The United States Coast Guard (USCG) described Carl D. Bradley ' s design and construction as: ... [a] typical arrangement for self-unloading type vessels with a forepeak and large cargo area, and having propulsion machinery aft.
Below: a lower deck of the ship. [1] Belowdecks: inside or into a ship, or down to a lower deck. [12] Bilge: the underwater part of a ship between the flat of the bottom and the vertical topsides [13] Bottom: the lowest part of the ship's hull. Bow: front of a ship (opposite of "stern") [1]
Her casemate extended for most of the length of the ship and was 130 feet 6 inches (39.8 m) long. It partially enclosed her 22-foot-6-inch (6.9 m) diameter stern paddle wheel in a recess at the aft end of the casemate; the upper 8 feet 4 inches (2.5 m) of the paddle wheel protruded above the casemate and was totally unprotected. [2]
USS Kidd (DD-661), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named after Rear Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, who died on the bridge of his flagship USS Arizona during the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
SS Jeremiah O'Brien is a Liberty ship built during World War II and named after the American Revolutionary War ship captain Jeremiah O'Brien (1744–1818).. Now based in San Francisco, she is a rare survivor [a] of the 6,939-ship 6 June 1944 D-Day armada off the coast of Normandy, France.
Dec. 15—BELFAST, Maine — The pungent aroma of freshly cut cedar spread around a chilly tent on the Belfast shoreline Tuesday as the occasional thud of mallet on chisel revealed the ongoing ...
The clew (back corner) of the sail attaches to the free end of the boom. The entire foot of the sail may be attached to the boom or just the clew. If the foot is not attached to the boom, the rig is known as loose footed. A boom may be found on small headsails. There the forward end of the boom is attached to the same stay as the sail's luff ...