What is "gundeck"

Usage examples of "gundeck".

His station was on the lower gundeck, to relay messages back and forth to the poop.

Lieutenant Priddie, second-in-command of the lower gundeck, lay face down, his back pierced with long splinters which had been blasted from the planking.

His responsibility with the ship at quarters was the upper gundeck and its twenty-eight brightly painted black twelve-pounder cannon, neatly aligned on their carriages, fourteen to a side.

At the same time he heard and felt the larger twenty-four-pounder cannon on the lower gundeck explode in a single broadside, heeling the ship with their recoil.

The remainder of his starboard cannon crashed inward as one, the wind filling the gundeck with the acrid smoke of burnt gunpowder, shrouding everything.

Several balls passed straight through the gundeck with terrifying crashes, hurling swarms of jagged shards of oak.

Nothing made any sense except that most of his men on the shattered gundeck were dead or bleeding their lives away and screaming in agony.

He made for the forward ladderway when he heard word being passed that dinner was available on the upper gundeck for the starboard watch.

I would like to shift two of the nine-pounders down to the gundeck and replace them with thirty-two-pound carronades on the quarterdeck.

After a moment he started forward, carefully made his way down the ladderway to the gundeck, and limped to a central spot forward of the mainmast.

Descent to the main gundeck revealed that they were blocked off from most of it by a smoldering, intensely smoky fire, so they all continued downward to the lower gundeck.

Then the red-handed butchering-party ascended to the main gundeck by way of one of the stern ladders.

The crowded, fetid gundeck was a vision from hell, and the stench was like a pig-sty or cesspit.

During the next few weeks the wound had festered, and Nedda had crouched like a bear in the darkest recess of the gundeck, her face swollen to double its size, pus leaking out through the dirty bandage, dripping yellow and thick as cream from her chin.

Now, in the reeking gundeck of the Meeuw, combing the nits from her hair, Louisa felt like one of the unfortunates destined for Hades.