What is "gundecks"

Usage examples of "gundecks".

He was pointing to one of the bigger warships, a great brute with three gundecks and Sharpe, peering through his glass, could see the bright gleam of her newly coppered hull whenever she leaned to the wind.

At that point, he ordered most of his men up from the gundecks, to be put to better use in fighting fires, manning the pumps, and tending the many wounded.

There was at least one fire on her gundecks to judge by the amounts of smoke billowing out of the still-open gunports.

These culverins and demiculverins threw their balls at the gundecks of the Frenchman, while the waist guns, the stern and forecastle guns, the rail swivels, and the top swivels, as well as the ship's complement of arquebusiers, sped their loads against rigging and exposed personnel.

Boarders apparently had reached and were clearing the enemy's gundecks, so there would be no more of those punishing salvos and he could safely put his carpenters to work on the damages already wrought.

The French captain appeared to have abandoned his gundecks altogether and assembled his whole crew on the forecastle, open weather deck and quarterdeck where they were armed with muskets, pikes, axes and cutlasses.

Mastless, her once-busy gundecks packed with casks and crates, she had become just a part of the dockyard.

Haven had obviously thought it odd, eccentric perhaps, that his admiral should wish to see anything beyond his cabin or the Poop deck let alone show interest in the gundecks and orlop.

You will be given postings to gundecks and other parts of ship until you are able to work with the people without making a poor example to them.

Cleared for action, a ship of the line was open from bow to stern, and a well-timed bombardment through the poop and counter could change the gundecks into a slaughterhouse.