Ship Structure Quiz 5

Drydock

A dock which a vessel is floated the water then being removed

Enterance

The Forward underwater proportion of a vessel at and near the bow

Expansion Joint

A term applied a joint which permits linear movement to take up the expansion and contraction due to temperature

Expansion Trunks

Trunkways extending a short way into oil tanker compartments from the hatches

Fabricate

To shape assemble and secure in place the component parts in order to form a complete job.

Fair

To fair a line means to even out curves, sheer lines, deck lines

Fairlead

A term applied to fittings or devices used in preserving the direction of rope

Fairwater

Plating fitted, in the shape of a frustum of a cone

Fantail

The overhanging stern section of a vessel

Fidley

A partialy raosed deck or framework over the engine and boiler room

Flange

The turned edge of a rolled steel angle or bar

Floor Plan

A longitudinal section, showing the ship as divided at water or deck line

Floors

Vertical flat plates running transversly on the vessel

Fore

Towards the stem

Forefoot

The forward end of a vesseles stem

Frames

the ribs of a ship

Freeboard

the distance from the waterline to the top of the weather deck on a vessel

Freezing Ports

Holes in the bolwarks or rail

Galvanizing

The prossess of coating one metal with another

Forepeak

The narrow extremity of a vessels bow.