Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone. Graham Hawkes
Yesterday it was divinely beautiful [at Scheveningen beach]. These barges lay in dense rows against the slope [of the beach], and between them one walked as between a fancy-built city and from above between all those tarred hulls coal-black, gray, green and white, a deep blue sky. George Hendrik Breitner
About 70 small waterplan area ships whose hulls have a smaller cross section at the waterplane than below the surface exist. Source: Internet
Although the vessels differed dramatically in capability and configuration, they were both big; the U.S. Navy imagined several new ways of packing systems onto the gigantic Iowa hulls that would make them formidable, multi-purpose ships. Source: Internet
Another very strong type of timber is oak; this was primarily used for the hulls of triereis to withstand the force of hauling ashore. Source: Internet
Although with similar complement to escort carriers, they had the advantage of speed from their converted cruiser hulls. Source: Internet