She also was to have a heavier hull.

This combination of heavy hull and heavy engines meant that speed was only 3 knots faster than the LCT(2)

This was popular for warships but it made for a heavy hull.

The heavy, full-keeled hull makes for good tracking offshore, coupled with a safe-feeling and quiet ride, but with limited performance.

Within a minute of Alex's first sighting, heavy hulls banged against the merchant ship, grappling hooks flew over the railings, and pirates began swarming aboard.

Perhaps it was the heavy double hull, especially designed for ramming through ice, that saved the ship.

Apart from any other consideration it would seem that there must be a mechanism of some kind to propel those immensely heavy hulls.

Her captain was steering directly into the Tang's path, confident his heavier hull would withstand the impact.

War galleys gradually began to develop heavier hulls with reinforcing beams at the waterline, where a ram would most likely hit.

As the heavy hull came slowly to life, its bow began turning to meet the monstrous, breaking swells head on.