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A porthole, sometimes called bull's-eye window or bull's-eye, [1] is a generally circular window used on the hull of ships to admit light and air. Though the term is of maritime origin, it is also used to describe round windows on armored vehicles , aircraft , automobiles (the Ford Thunderbird a notable example) and even spacecraft .
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 ...
A glass window above the captain's cabin to allow viewing of the sails above deck. bulward bulwark Bulwark (or bulward) The extension of a ship's side above the level of the weather deck. bumboat A private boat selling goods. bumpkin. Also boomkin. 1. A spar, similar to a bowsprit, but which projects from the stern rather than the bow.
A bridge (also known as a command deck), or wheelhouse (also known as a pilothouse), is a room or platform of a ship, submarine, airship, or spaceship from which the ship can be commanded. When a ship is under way, the bridge is manned by an officer of the watch aided usually by an able seaman acting as a lookout.
Mine were particularly spacious for a ship that only operates short vacations— Utopia of the Seas exclusively sails three- and four-night cruises. One major feature made the $100 worth it: a window.
One of the ship's can't-miss bars is Bubbles, a walk-up Champagne window. Pop the bubbly because the world’s largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, is officially cruising ...
Chaff, originally called Window [1] or Düppel, is a radar countermeasure involving the dispersal of thin strips of aluminium, metallized glass fiber, or plastic. [2] Dispersed chaff produces a large radar cross section intended to blind or disrupt radar systems.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) unveiled the design for the new Francis Scott Key Bridge almost a year after it was hit by a cargo ship, causing it to ...