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Couple 64

English translation: Frame 64


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French term or phrase:Couple 64
English translation:Frame 64
Entered by: Helen Godfrey
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French to English translations [PRO]
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.
Helen Godfrey
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:16
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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Bourth
France
Local time: 20:16
Grading comment
Thanks Bourth. This seems to be the only logical explanation even though it seems odd!
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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.

Bourth
France
Local time: 20:16
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 120
Grading comment
Thanks Bourth. This seems to be the only logical explanation even though it seems odd!
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