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- Astern (adjective): toward the rear of a ship (opposite of "forward"). Athwartships: toward the sides of a ship. Aweather: toward the weather or windward...
- joist, which runs horizontally from one side of the hull to the other athwartships. Carlinsimilar to a beam, except running in a fore and aft direction...
- superstructure razed and replaced by a large hangar for two aircraft and a fixed athwartships catapult. A crane was ****ed on either side of the after funnel, and...
- A view into the holds of a container ship. The vertical cell guides organize containers athwartships....
- array of stays and shrouds. Each stay in either the fore-and-aft or athwartships direction has a corresponding one in the opposite direction providing...
- function but extend on each side of the mast and provide support in the athwartships direction. The object of both is to prevent the masts from falling down...
- Individual compartments are referred to by the tank number and the athwartships position, such as "one port", "three starboard", or "six center". A cofferdam...
- Therefore this is the dimension across the vertical sides of a keel, the athwartships face of a frame, or the fore and aft face of stem or stern post. moulded...
- and during World War II with catapults on the hangar deck that fired athwartships, but they were unpo****r because of their short run, low clearance of...
- safety of the breakwater Zeebrugge Mole. The aircraft was then lashed athwartships again and the submarine left the harbour, seemingly dwarfed by the 53 ft...