Deck

The wooden planking, iron or steel plating, covering deck beams; extending all fore and aft, and from side to side. If such deck is of wood, say of yellow—, or pitch-pine, etc., it is composed of planks of as great length as can be obtained, from about 6 to 8 inches in breadth, and according to the size of the ve el from 2 ’/s to 4 inches thick; if planks are 6 inches or le in width, they are usually single fastened; i. e: attached by one bolt to every beam; when their width is 8 inches or more, they are as a rule fastened with two bolts to every beam. Woollen decks are generally renewed, when 4 inch planks have lost ’y/11, and 3 inch planks ’/stb of their original thickne . Note. The simple term uDeck” further signifies the uppermost of various decks if extending from end to end of a ve el; i. e: the upper-deck in two, three or four deck ve els; the spar-deck, awning-deck and shelter-deck of ve els of such types.