Its specific gravity is so small that it will not make a boat stiff, and so even a boat that has no water-tight compartments will be safer in a strong wind with lead or iron ballast.
They should be built in water-tight compartments, and covered fore and aft to prevent being swamped.
They were divided into six water-tight compartments, and they differed from the Scandinavian boats in having the spaces forward and aft of the machinery permanently decked, instead of being covered with movable steel covers only.
Of the remainder of the water-tight compartments, 60 are beneath the armor.
They are of the horizontal triple expansion type, driving twin screws, and placed in separate water-tight compartments.
She has an iron keel and kelson to resist a bump on rocks, and with four water-tight compartments to limit its effects if once stove in.
It was so divided that there were four separate water-tight compartments in the breadth of the vessel.
Steam was supplied from six entirely independent groups of boilers in six separate water-tight compartments.
The electric-machinery compartment was further protected by a structure some distance in from the ship's side, forming six separate water-tight compartments, which were used for the storage of fresh water.
One man said there was absolutely no danger, that the boat was the finest ever built, with water-tight compartments, and that it could not sink.
The White Star officials declared that the Titanic was in no immediate danger of sinking, because of her numerous water-tight compartments.
More recently the battleship Maine, or what was left of her, was floated out to sea, and kept on top of the water by her water-tight compartments only.
The Native States cannot, however, live wholly in water-tight compartments.
To return now to the subject of 'logic-tight compartments'.
Then the Snark has four water-tight compartments, which is to say that her length is broken by three water-tight bulkheads.
Whenever I looked at the bow of the Snark or thought of her water- tight compartments, I was encouraged.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tight compartments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
