What is "afterdeck"

Usage examples of "afterdeck".

It was a black ship, with high foredeck and afterdeck, and four high masts.

More important, their afterdecks were almost the same height above the water, which made for ease of transfer of both cargo and human beings.

A third gunman covered two ticonderoga seamen who were stationed at lowered guardrails to catch and steady men as they stepped or jumped from the afterdeck of the campari to that of the ticonderoga as the two ships rolled together.

From the lake buckets of water were transferred along a human chain and passed up to the afterdeck, where the water was poured into the cabin through a vent.

They gathered on the afterdeck, naked, and passed a bar of soap among them.

Max lifted a hatch in the afterdeck, brought out a bucket of mullet and dangled a fish before the sea lion.

The gun, of course, the gun that carreras had mounted on the afterdeck, with the tarpaulin serving the dual purpose of protecting the mechanism from the rain and concealing it from any other vessel they might have passed during the day.

But Carreras had no prowlers there: apart from the guards on e gun, the afterdeck appeared to be completely deserted.

I could count eight crates already aboard the afterdeck of the campari: a dozen still to come.

From where I lay I could see four other armed men-there were probably many more patrolling the decks of the ticonderoga and four others on the afterdeck of the campari.

A minute later the campari was under way and, her afterdeck haphazardly packed with crates, was slewing round and heading away towards the east.

Softly proceeded to the afterdeck and stepped into a reinforced deep-diving cylinder that was then lowered into the sea on cables.

The Giants responded eagerly, gathering on the afterdeck and in the shrouds of the aftermast so that the First and Covenant could speak to them from the wheeldeck.

With a frown at the Mouser the starsman avoided the mainmast and had the sailors hang their lanterns to the aftermast and the crane fittings and the forward range of the afterdeck, fussing about the exact positions.

She had a small forward cabin, a tangle of rods and lines, redolent of fish and oil, and an open afterdeck with ten rod-holders and a single fighting chair homemade in oak, cushions extra.