Credit: Wolfmann
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Comments: Ship with wooden deck of timber planks
Credit: Joseph Swain (1820–1909). This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Refer to Wellcome blog post (archive).
License: CC BY 4.0
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Comments: The Emigrant Ship. People are gathered on the deck of a ship. Wood engraving.
From -webster deck: DECK, noun. 1. The covering of a ship, which constitutes a floor, made of timbers and planks. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks. A flush deck is a continued floor from stem to stern, on one line.