Flight deck: ( naval) A deck from which aircraft take off or land.(b) An athwartships structure at the forward end of the cockpit with a deck, often somewhat lower than the primary deck, to prevent a pooping wave from entering through the companionway. Bridge deck: (a) The deck area including the helm and navigation station, and where the Officer of the Deck/Watch will be found, also known as the conn.Boiler deck: (river steamers) The passenger deck above the vessel's boilers.Boat deck: Especially on ships with sponsons, the deck area where lifeboats or the ship's gig are stored.Berth deck: ( naval) A deck next below the gun deck, where the hammocks of the crew are slung.
Afterdeck an open deck area toward the stern-aft.Although these are formally called decks, they are usually referred to as levels, because they are usually incomplete decks that do not extend all the way from the stem to the stern or across the ship. The next higher decks are referred to as the 02 level, the 03 level, and so on. 01 level is the term used in naval services to refer to the deck above the main deck.However, there are also various common historical names and types of decks: In vessels having more than one deck there are various naming conventions, numerically, alphabetically, etc. Weather deck of the Swedish 17th-century warship Vasa looking aft toward the sterncastle Eastern designs developed earlier, with efficient middle decks and minimalist fore and aft cabin structures across a range of designs. Weather decks in Western designs evolved from having structures fore (forward or front) and aft (rear) of the ship mostly clear in the 19th century, pilothouses/wheelhouses and deckhouses began to appear, eventually developing into the superstructure of modern ships.
Ships may also call decks by common names, or (especially on cruise ships) may invent fanciful and romantic names for a specific deck or area of that specific ship, such as the lido deck of the Princess Cruises' Love Boat.Įquipment mounted on deck, such as the ship's wheel, binnacle, fife rails, and so forth, may be collectively referred to as deck furniture. Some merchant ships may alternatively designate decks below the primary deck, usually machinery spaces, by numbers, and those above it, in the accommodation block, by letters. So the first deck below the primary deck will be #2, and the first above the primary deck will be #A2 or #S2 (for "above" or "superstructure"). In modern ships, the interior decks are usually numbered from the primary deck, which is #1, downward and upward. The actual floor surface is called the sole the term 'deck' refers to a structural member tying the ships frames or ribs together over the keel. On ships with more than one level, 'deck' refers to the level itself. Crew and passengers on the wraparound deck of RMS Queen Mary 2, an ocean liner