What is "davits"

Usage examples of "davits".

Three large lifeboats hung in their davits behind the paddle wheels along with a life raft that was tied to the forward deck.

He found Captain Child standing by the davits that swung out the starboard lifeboat, and heard him shouting for Chief Engineer Courtland Hemstead.

Only two out of the six boats hanging in their davits were lowered free of the sinking ship.

Five lifeboats, two motor launches, and the captain's gig hung in their davits above decks amidships.

Twice he had attempted to maneuver alongside before the ship sank, but was stopped by the davits of the lifeboats that hung out and down.

Had the Belgian crew remained a few minutes more and loaded the lifeboats properly, the davits would have been retracted and Lewandowski could have pulled his boat abreast of the railing.

He was worried that the ship was at such an angle that the davits would not work, but the boat began to descend, although it bumped against the slanting hull.

He maneuvered the boat under the davits that projected overhead like extended wooden arms.

The rowers lifted the oars out of their locks and stood them in a vertical position, then attached the lines hanging down from the davits and winched themselves up to deck level.

They hung in their white metal davits, suspended from pulleys and thick bundles of ropes, and Captain Smith must not have given the order for the boats to be lowered yet.

The boats, off to her right, still hung in their davits, shrouded in canvas.

It was deserted, the deck lamps making pools of yellow light, illuminating the empty lifeboat davits, the deck chairs lined up against the wall of the wheelhouse and the gymnasium.

We hit an iceberg and we sank, and all this"—she waved her hand at the deck, the empty davits, the darkness—"is a metaphor for what's really happening, the sensory neurons shutting down, the synapses failing to arc.

Water began to pour from the lifeboat davits, from the railings, from the chest.

The davits broke loose from their moorings, and the mechanical camel, and the weight machine, looking more than ever like a guillotine.