page_title: Bulkhead (partition)
hierarchical_section_title: Bulkhead (partition)
caption_attribution_description: Fig. 9 &#160;Compartments: watertight subdivision Ships are divided into compartments by walls called bulkheads. Access to these compartments is by doors or hatches, designed, when closed, to keep the compartment watertight.
context_page_description: A bulkhead is an upright wall within the hull of a ship or within the fuselage of an aeroplane. Other kinds of partition elements within a ship are decks and deckheads.
context_section_description: A bulkhead is an upright wall within the hull of a ship or within the fuselage of an aeroplane.  Other kinds of partition elements within a ship are decks and deckheads.
caption: Compartmentalisation of a ship, to reduce floodability
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