What is "cargo holds"

Usage examples of "cargo holds".

A man who had worked hard to convert the cargo holds into something more comfortable for you.

Tinester had perished in a fire that spread swiftly through his cargo holds full of barrels of oil and dry hides, consuming him in a matter of hours.

The auxiliary power unit was amidships, in the bulkhead between our fore and aft cargo holds.

Now, point out to me where the ballast holds are, and where the cargo holds.

To look for Moran in a floating city with 230 staterooms, quarters for a crew of over 300, cargo holds and engine room, all spread over eleven decks nearly 500 feet in length was a lost cause.

Then crane operators, working from the ships on the surface and employing underwater cameras, manipulated the clamshell claws on the end of their winch cables, deftly recovering the crates exposed on the outer decks of the ship, those deep inside the cargo holds and the artifacts littering the bottom between the two sections of the broken hull.

The cargo holds should be emptied before the end of the next shift.

Troy could see OrbLab 2 was a collection of spinning, self-contained pods or armored canisters linked together: discarded external fuel tanks and cargo holds cobbled together into a separate facility, with life-support systems and structural reinforcement added as an afterthought.

Overhead, two sky-reaching cranes dipped their jaws down into the darkened cargo holds only to have them reappear minutes later with mangled bits and pieces of debris clutched in their iron teeth.

They just stood there, their hands hanging empty by their sides, staring at the guarded ramp and the cargo holds.