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2. Hold (compartment) - Wikipedia

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   Six large cargo hatch covers on a capesize bulk carrier ship as she approaches the Egyptian-Japanese Friendship Bridge. A cargo hatch or deck hatch or hatchway is type of door used on ships and boats to cover the opening to the cargo hold or other lower part of the ship. To make the cargo hold waterproof, most cargo holds have cargo hatch.

3. Clear view screen - Wikipedia

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   Other common names for it include "clear sight", "spin window", "Kent Screen" and "rotating windshield wiper". Clear view screens were patented in 1917 by Samuel Augustine de Normanville and Leslie Harcourt Kent as a stand-alone pillar-mounted screen, [ 1 ] with later patents for telescope and optics covers, followed by the more familiar ships ...

4. Window covering - Wikipedia

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   Window coverings comprise materials used to cover a window to manage sunlight, privacy, additional weatherproofing or for purely decorative purposes. Window coverings are typically used on the interior side of windows, but exterior solutions are also available. Window coverings may be used to manage overheating and glare issues due to sunlight.

5. Compartment (ship) - Wikipedia

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   Decks above the main deck may be named, like the bridge deck or poop deck, [12] or they may be numbered upwards from the main deck with a zero prefix that is pronounced "oh": 01 above the main deck, 02 deck above 01, and so forth. [13] The United States Navy (USN) has used the latter convention in a compartment numbering system since 1949. The ...

6. Boat building - Wikipedia

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   Stern: the aftmost part of a boat, often ending in a transom. Stern sheets a flat area or deck, inboard of the transom in a small boat. It may contain hatches to access below decks or provide storage on deck for life saving equipment. Strake: planking, running from the "garboard" strake affixed to the keel to the "sheer" strake below the caprail.

7. Companionway - Wikipedia

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   In the architecture of a ship, a companion or companionway is a raised and windowed hatchway in the ship's deck, with a ladder leading below and the hooded entrance-hatch to the main cabins. [1] A companionway may be secured by doors or, commonly in sailboats , hatch boards which fit in grooves in the companionway frame.