The system was clumsy but efficient, like watertightcompartments on a ship.
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One can't divide a matter of this sort into watertightcompartments.
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She is divided into seven watertightcompartments by athwartship bulkheads.
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I had a feeling he might have several, keeping them all in various watertightcompartments.
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The tonnage of the Hatteras was eleven hundred tons; material, iron, with watertightcompartments; age, eighteen months.
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The vessel was believed to be unsinkable because of the unique design of its 16 watertightcompartments.
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Many things become possible to those who think seriously, as he did-and ,soto speak, without watertightcompartments.
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But since man's faculties are not divided into watertightcompartments, neither should the sermon intended to influence him.
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The hull is divided into three watertightcompartments by bulkheads and there was no question of the ship sinking.
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No man, as his life and work showed, can be allowed to keep his good citizenship in watertightcompartments.
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As the profile shows, the vessel is divided by transverse bulkheads into seven watertightcompartments, and there are double bottoms.
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It has watertightcompartments.
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Close the watertightcompartments.
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Floats are usually made with watertightcompartments, and are composed of several thin layers of wood, riveted to a wooden framework.
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The arts of civilization were never developed in watertightcompartments, as is shown by the uniformity of custom over the modern world.
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In 1911, the Belfast Morning News published a report touting the Titanic's new era of modern technology: watertightcompartments and electronic, watertight doors.