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Also known as ship hull, boat hull

watertight body of a ship or boat

Wikidata facts

Part of
watercraft
Has part
keel
Image
Tigre (1724) mg 5065.jpg
Connects with
bowsprit
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Commons category
Hull (watercraft)
has characteristic
buoyancy
different from
Korpus
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Encyclopedic overview

Hull form lines, lengthwise and in cross-section A hull is the watertight body of a ship, boat, submarine, or flying boat. The hull may open at the top (such as a dinghy), or it may be fully or partially covered with a deck. Atop the deck may be a deckhouse and other superstructures, such as a funnel, derrick, or mast. The line where the hull meets the water surface is called the waterline.

General features

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “hull” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.