Meaning of athwartship | Babel Free

Definitions

Oriented across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel.

not-comparable

Examples

“athwartship bulkheads; an athwartship berth”

“The Nan-Shan had an athwartship bunker which, being frequently used as cargo space, communicated by an iron door with the fore ’tween-deck.”

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