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What does athwartship mean?

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Adverb
  1. (nautical) athwartships
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The logs were bundled together in lifts of approximately 36 to 40 tons each, and the bundles were stowed athwartship across the deck.
The vessel was built by the owner for use in the lobster and herring fisheries and is divided by four athwartship bulkheads which were positioned to restrict the movement of the catch when fishing for herring.
The surface vessel has a propeller in her skeg operating athwartship in addition to the usual stem propeller.
Girding is defined as a situation where a vessel experiences athwartship forces from its towline.
This configuration allows to image water column and sea bottom in both athwartship and fore-and-aft direction.
The fore-and-aft and athwartship pen boards in the forward fish hold did not extend to the deckhead but were about 450 mm below it, and the stowed fish extended some 150 mm above the pen boards.

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