Sentence examples for tank deck from inspiring English sources

The lower deck was the tank deck, where 20 Sherman tanks could be loaded.

I was in the tank deck with a couple of colleagues.

Vehicles and troops would land over the ramp, while amphibious craft in the tank deck would disembark from stern gates.

The engine rooms and boiler rooms on the tank top deck had vertically closing doors that could be controlled remotely from the bridge, lowered automatically by a float if water was present, or closed manually by the crew.

She had 46 tanks, of deck, and at her full load draft, could not navigate the English Channel.

§ 153.1003 Prohibited carriage in deck tanks.

The gun punched holes through the destroyer's plating that set some petrol tanks on the deck afire and disabled 'A' gun.

IF you stand on the bridge of Dream, a 184-foot yacht capable of circumnavigating the globe on a single tank of fuel, the deck 20-odd-feet below looks like that of some gutsy supply boat, all chunky with steel and gritty gray nonskid paint.

Above the tank top level, on the Orlop Deck, F Deck and E Deck, the doors closed horizontally and were manually operated.

Liquids, meanwhile, are stored below deck in tanks, each of which is fitted with its own pumping system, in order to avoid the risk of mixing substances best kept separate.Borge Nakken, who is in charge of technology and development at Farstad, expects Far Solitaire to use about 40% less fuel than a conventional vessel of the same size that is carrying out similar tasks.

As of 1999, the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea defines a bulk carrier as "a ship constructed with a single deck, top side tanks and hopper side tanks in cargo spaces and intended to primarily carry dry cargo in bulk; an ore carrier; or a combination carrier".