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Usage examples of quinton.

Like John Quinton, who had been his first lieutenant in Tigress, and who by rights should have a command of his own.

There were more laughs in the boat, and Ainslie thanked the fates which had brought him and Quinton together.

Sawle, the torpedoman cum wardroom messman, hurried beside him, and as Quinton ran up the bridge ladder and into the wheelhouse he handed Ainslie his cap with something like reverence.

He joined Quinton in the wheelhouse, taking in the disorder, the flaking paintwork, the ragged, half-naked helmsman made more pathetic by his seamen with their levelled weapons.

Ainslie knew that Quinton did not like the gunnery officer very much, and that seemed to go for almost everyone else.

Feet came pounding along the passageway, and then after a muttered conversation with Farrant, Quinton thrust his way past the curtain.

Around him handsets and voice-pipes chattered back and forth until Quinton reported that every section was functioning as it should.

Above his head he could see the two periscopes twisting on the standards as Quinton and Forster made repeated checks to fix their position.

He trusted Quinton with his life, but so far from his place of command he felt vulnerable and helpless.

It was fitting and moving to hear Quinton read the burial service over the intercom while Ainslie and the bridge lookouts did the rest.

Down in the control room Quinton had completed his final checks, readjusting the trimming tanks against the findings on his slide-rule.

He busied himself with bottle and glasses while Quinton lounged in a chair watching him.

If he stayed here he would either sleep or be pestered by questions and demands which Quinton could handle just as easily.

A girl shrieked with laughter, and Quinton saw the flame-coloured dress moving amongst the people in the boat like a spirit.

Forster glanced at Quinton who was in his customary place between the helmsman and the raised periscope.