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Hold

 
Wikipedia: Hold (ship)
View of the hold of a container ship

A ship's hold, in older ships, was below the orlop deck, the lower part of the interior of a ship's hull, especially when considered as storage space, as for cargo. In later merchant vessels it extended up through the decks to the underside of the weather deck.


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