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Military / Defense / ship security report | | French term or phrase: Couple 64 | Context:
Accès coursive officiers Couple 64 donne accès à la timonerie via l’escalier central
This is exactly how the sentence appears. It is in a column marked 'ship location'.
A similar sentence appears below:
Accès machine
Pont principal Bd
Couple 66
Any confirmation as to whether this is a name, whether it relates to the frame or a transverse section or something else in fact, would be extremely helpful. |
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| | Frame 64 | Explanation:
Both Ernst and a naval glossary I have suggest that one meaning of "couple" is "frame", and Lexis gives:
couple - Pièce de construction de la coque d'un navire ou du fuselage d'un avion, placée perpendiculairement à l'axe du navire ou de l'avion
Websters confirms :
frame (Shipbuilding)- any of the transverse strengthening members of a ship's hull that extend from the gunwale to the keel
An illustrated bilingual book on ships I have shows "couple dévoyé" as "frame" "cant frame" and "fashion piece".
So presumably "couple 64" is a means of locating a position on the ship. |
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| Grading comment Thanks Bourth. This seems to be the only logical explanation even though it seems odd!
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25 mins confidence:   Frame 64
Explanation:
Both Ernst and a naval glossary I have suggest that one meaning of "couple" is "frame", and Lexis gives:
couple - Pièce de construction de la coque d'un navire ou du fuselage d'un avion, placée perpendiculairement à l'axe du navire ou de l'avion
Websters confirms :
frame (Shipbuilding)- any of the transverse strengthening members of a ship's hull that extend from the gunwale to the keel
An illustrated bilingual book on ships I have shows "couple dévoyé" as "frame" "cant frame" and "fashion piece".
So presumably "couple 64" is a means of locating a position on the ship.
| xxxBourth
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| | Grading comment | Thanks Bourth. This seems to be the only logical explanation even though it seems odd! |
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