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aircraft carrier
A large warship equipped to serve as a base for aircraft that can take off from and land on its deck.
bridge Quick reference
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)
an elevated platform built above the upper deck of a powered vessel, from which a ship is normally navigated and from where all activities on deck can be seen and controlled by the captain ...
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
the elevated, enclosed platform on a ship from which the captain and officers direct operations.
bulk carrier
A generic term for a vessel which carries large quantities of any material in bulk, but is now generally used to describe a large merchant vessel developed during the 1950s to transport large volumes ...
carous
A sort of gallery or bridge, pivoted in the centre and fitted in ancient warships, such as galleys, as a means of boarding an enemy. On forcing a way alongside an enemy it was hoisted up by a tackle ...
catwalk
Narrow footway, as on a bridge, or to give access to high-level parts of a building, e.g. sky-lights or gutters.
clear-view screen
A circular disc of plate glass, which is revolved at high speed by an electric motor, incorporated in the glass screen of the navigating bridge. The centrifugal motion throws off all rain, sleet, or ...
con, cond
From the Anglo-Saxon connan, to know, to be skilful, or possibly from the Latin conducere, to lead or conduct, the giving of the necessary orders to the helmsman to steer a ship in a required ...
conning tower
1 The armoured control centre of a major warship after the change from wood to iron and steel from which, originally, the ship was navigated in battle. Later, with the increasing sophistication of ...
cowl
1 A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top, which can be swivelled on deck to catch the wind and force it below. See also dorade ventilator.2 The cover of a ship's funnel as used in harbour, and ...
deck
The horizontal platforms in ships corresponding to floors in houses. Starting from the bottom, the decks in an average large ship are the orlop, lower (though the two are now sometimes combined in a ...
dodger
Before the days of the enclosed bridge, a painted canvas screen erected at chest height around the forward side and wing ends of a ship's bridge as a protection against the weather. Up to the 1920s, ...
gyroscopic
An electrically driven compass that owes its directional properties to a perfectly balanced wheel, or rotor, that spins at high speed symmetrically about an axis. The operation of the gyro compass ...
jumping
A serrated wire leading from the stemhead of a submarine to the forward edge of the bridge casing above the conning tower, and from the after edge of the bridge casing to the stern. It was used for ...
quarterdeck
The part of a ship's upper deck near the stern, traditionally reserved for officers. The term was originally (in the early 17th century) used for a smaller deck situated above the half-deck, covering ...
superstructure
The constructions on board a ship that are above the level of the upper deck. It would include the whole of the bridge structure and the deckhouse.
tanker
A ship designed to carry liquids in bulk in large storage tanks. Most carry oil but some carry wine, sugar products, and liquified gases.
tug
V. tugged, tugging tow (a ship) by means of a tug or tugs.n.1 also tugboat a small, powerful boat used for towing larger boats and ships, especially in harbor.[...]
well deck
The two spaces on the main deck of the old type of merchant ship, one between the forecastle and the midships housing which supports the bridge, the other between the latter and the poop deck.
wheelhouse
The deckhouse of a vessel within which the steering wheel is fitted. In most large ships it forms part of the bridge. In smaller vessels without a bridge, it is a separate compartment raised above ...
