Converse of object

• upturn: The vessel had capsized and all three crewmembers had managed to scramble on to the upturned hull.

Adjective modifier

• convex: The convex hull is the minimal convex covering of an object.

• ice-strengthened: The vessel is strongly built of steel with an ice-strengthened hull, perfect for the polar seas.

• one-piece: Given a choice I would prefer a two-piece hull ' with openings ' than a one-piece hull ' without ' .

• starboard: With her starboard hull intact elsewhere what could have caused this mysterious damage in her forward section?

• resilient: At over 22,000 tons, she retains her handsome traditional profile and her resilient ice-strengthened hull which enables her to cruise in the Antarctic.

• outer: MULDER: The outer hull must have finally corroded through, which means we're taking on water.

Modifies a noun

• planking: Excavations beneath the hull planking have shown that it was deliberately positioned, with several large timber supports beneath the sides of the vessel.

• plating: Generally, its easy to build up a picture of trends of thinning on hull plating.

• tanker: New European Union legislation has now banned all single hull tankers trading in our waters from 2010.

Noun used with modifier

• fiberglas: The computer-designed, solid fiberglass hull is the result of extensive testing and special engineering.

• buckwheat: With a 100 % cotton case filled with 2.9kg of 100 % Organic buckwheat hulls.

• clinker: Any form of clinker hull, even the triple clinker of the late medieval English shipwrights, was totally unsuitable for such treatment.

• fiberglass: The catamaran consists of two fiberglass hulls each side with soft material floor between.

• steel: The steel hull remains lying on her port side in 27 meters with the deck planking now gone.

• yacht: Ironically the infestation of barnacles on yacht hulls - which the paint was designed to prevent - does not happen in fresh water.

Possessives

• ship: Cruise lines fun a ship's hull she should receive sandy beach.

Preposition: of

• submarine: There is a meeting on 2nd December, organized by ISOLUS concerning the fate of the hulls of nuclear submarines.

• ship: They had brought her with them, in the hull of a ship, locked away in the luggage compartment.

• wreck: Beneath us lay large areas of welded steel plate, the collapsed remains of the hull of the wreck.