Ship's deck sometimes reduced to six letters

Usage examples of forecastle.

The reply had been made many years ago, but it had improved with age, and now it made him smile as he swung off the yard, seized a shifting backstay, slid easily down it and dropped on to the forecastle.

When the battleships pitched, gray water broke clear over their massive forecastles, and the dipping long guns vanished in spray.

Harris followed his gaze and saw the forecastle gun, the Bofors gun and a machine gun abaft the bridge, were now augmented by a dozen marksmen with rifles, and all aiming their weapons at Harris.

Above, twelve brass demiculverins, ten sakers, one minion, four portpieces, five fowlers, eight basies on the forecastle, six falcons, and nine falconets.

A few minutes later James Playfair came out of his cabin and went to the forecastle, where Mr.

The sailors who would have gone to their deaths willingly for her father now spoke openly in the forecastle of finding another vessel when next they shipped out.

The rammers and sponges belonging to the broadside-guns of spar-deck divisions of all ships having topgallant forecastles, or other light decks, may be kept under the forecastle or light deck when not in use.

He and his score and a half or so of men here against the sterncastle and an approximate equal number backed against the forecastle were all that was now left of the boarders.

Daikoff strode to the forecastle where Watches and Ool had held their whispered conversation, and from the ventilator removed a small compact dictograph device which had been lowered there.

Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of the noble South Sea war-wood, are frequently met with in the forecastles of American whalers.

But as perhaps fifty of these whale-bone whales are harpooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has already very seriously diminished their battalions.

Imbued with that conviction, one of the men, thinking he had found a good opportunity of fulfilling the wishes of the priest, came up to me as I was standing at the extreme end of the forecastle, and pushed me so roughly that I was thrown over.

CHAPTER 121 Midnight - The Forecastle Bulwarks Stubb and Flask mounted on them, and passing additional lashings over the anchors there hanging.

Women and children screamed at the sight of the flapping sail above them and tried to crowd all at once into the shelter under the coracles on the forecastle.

He could hear the voices of men talking and singing in the forecastles, but could hear no movement on the deck of either ship.