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  2. Superstructure - Wikipedia

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    The blue and white part of the ship is the superstructure and the yellow part of the ship is the hull. A superstructure is an upward extension of an existing structure above a baseline. This term is applied to various kinds of physical structures such as buildings, bridges, or ships. [1]

  3. Shipbuilding - Wikipedia

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    These ships used two types of sail of their invention, the junk sail and tanja sail. Large ships are about 50–60 metres (164–197 ft) long, had 5.2–7.8 metres (17–26 ft) tall freeboard, [35] each carrying provisions enough for a year, [36]: 464 and could carry 200–1000 people. The Chinese recorded that these Southeast Asian ships were ...

  4. Spacecraft design - Wikipedia

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    This design process produces the detailed design specifications, schematics, and plans for the spacecraft system, including comprehensive documentation outlining the spacecraft's architecture, subsystems, components, interfaces, and operational requirements, and potentially some prototype models or simulations, all of which taken together serve ...

  5. Bridge (nautical) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Battlestar Galactica (fictional spacecraft) - Wikipedia

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    The "Pegasus" appeared in the two-part episode "The Living Legend" with its name shown prominently on the ship's hull throughout. The ultimate fate of Pegasus was left ambiguous with strong indications the ship would return in later seasons. The "Galactica" was the only other ship filmed with footage of its name on the hull plate during the series.

  7. Ancient shipbuilding techniques - Wikipedia

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    Ancient boat building methods can be categorized as one of hide, log, sewn, lashed-plank, clinker (and reverse-clinker), shell-first, and frame-first. While the frame-first technique dominates the modern ship construction industry, the ancients relied primarily on the other techniques to build their watercraft. In many cases, these techniques ...

  8. Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The player controls the ship from a navigation screen displaying multiple panels: Main View Screen: provides an overhead view of the spaceship in relation to its immediate surroundings. Auxiliary View Screen: displays information about the spaceship's status including a fuel gauge and the state of the weapons and defensive systems.

  9. Pagoda mast - Wikipedia

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    Pagoda masts were built on existing tripod masts by adding searchlight and other platforms, lookouts and shelters upon each other, the result resembling a pagoda temple. The superstructures were constructed on the majority of the ships that were rebuilt by the Japanese during the 1930s, including the Kongō-class battlecruisers and the Fusō, Ise, and Nagato-class battleships.