Athwartship means across the length of a vessel, or a direction perpendicular to any point along the fore-and-aft line. Abeam and abreast designates a direction at right angles to the ship's fore-and-aft line; also, opposite the center of a ship. Close.
The most expensive home in the United States is now for sale for a whopping $350 million. The Bel-Air estate may be familiar to those who watched âThe Beverly Hillbilliesâ television series, where it was featured.
This palatial mansion home, which boasts six waterfalls and more than a million pounds worth of gold leaf, could be the most expensive house ever sold in America. Due to be completed in 2016, the Chateau de Versailles in Florida's Hillsboro Mile is on the market at an incredible $159million (Â£105m).