Meanings of watertight compartments in English

The system was clumsy but efficient, like watertight compartments on a ship.

One can't divide a matter of this sort into watertight compartments.

She is divided into seven watertight compartments by athwartship bulkheads.

I had a feeling he might have several, keeping them all in various watertight compartments.

The tonnage of the Hatteras was eleven hundred tons; material, iron, with watertight compartments; age, eighteen months.

The vessel was believed to be unsinkable because of the unique design of its 16 watertight compartments.

Many things become possible to those who think seriously, as he did-and ,soto speak, without watertight compartments.

But since man's faculties are not divided into watertight compartments, neither should the sermon intended to influence him.

The hull is divided into three watertight compartments by bulkheads and there was no question of the ship sinking.

No man, as his life and work showed, can be allowed to keep his good citizenship in watertight compartments.

As the profile shows, the vessel is divided by transverse bulkheads into seven watertight compartments, and there are double bottoms.

It has watertight compartments.

Close the watertight compartments.

Floats are usually made with watertight compartments, and are composed of several thin layers of wood, riveted to a wooden framework.

The arts of civilization were never developed in watertight compartments, as is shown by the uniformity of custom over the modern world.

In 1911, the Belfast Morning News published a report touting the Titanic's new era of modern technology: watertight compartments and electronic, watertight doors.