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Encyclopedia > Cabin (ship)

A cabin is an enclosed room in a ship. A cabin or cab is an enclosed space, in a ship, see cabin (ship), in an aircraft or spacecraft as a log cabin as in a hansom cab see also Uncle Toms Cabin This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share... A ship is a large, usually decked watercraft. ...


Sailing Ships

In sailing ships, the officers and paying passengers would have an individual or shared cabin. Traditional wooden cutter beating. ... A cabin or cab is an enclosed space, in a ship, see cabin (ship), in an aircraft or spacecraft as a log cabin as in a hansom cab see also Uncle Toms Cabin This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share...


The Commanding officer also known as Captain would have the Grand cabin that normally spanned the stern with large windows, subdivided with movable panels that could be taken down in time of battle so that a small gun could be set up there or the large room used as a surgery. In military organizations, the commanding officer (CO) is the officer in charge of a military unit. ... Captain is both a nautical term and a military rank. ... For other meanings of the term, see Stern (disambiguation). ... This article is about firearms and similar devices. ... Surgery Surgery (from the Greek cheirourgia - lit. ...


Modern Warships

In most modern warships the Commanding officer has a Main Cabin, often adjacent to the ship's central control room (Operations room), and a Sea Cabin adjacent to the Bridge. Thus, when likely to be called from sleep or attending to administration, the CO can be at the Bridge or Ops room instantly. USS Port Royal (CG-73), a Ticonderoga class cruiser. ... This article is about the edifice. ...


In the Star Trek science fiction series, the sea cabin has become the ready room which amply describes its relationship to the bridge and the Captain's use of it. The Enterprise boldly going where no man had gone before. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...


Officers will normally have their own cabins, which doubles as their office. Some senior NCOs may have a cabin for similar reasons. NCO may mean: a numerically-controlled oscillator in electronics a non-commissioned officer in the military   This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...


Passenger Ships

In ships carrying passengers, they are normally accommodated in cabins, taking the terminology familiar to seafarers and so adding mystique to a voyage. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...


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