What is "messdeck"

Usage examples of "messdeck".

It made the familiar privacy of a messdeck fade, brought home to him the frailness of their daily protection.

The forward messdeck seemed untouched, and he found two seamen having their wounds dressed by the S.

There was an ugly edge to the messdeck talk and he was troubled by it.

Lanthorns swung together, sending shadows swaying over the packed messdeck, the strained, tired men and double-breeched guns.

Throughout his training he had thought of Floss as a swinish bully, a man who had cruelly injured one of his own men, a messdeck thug who needed to be forcibly and physically beaten down.

Thus, if he were to walk through a messdeck where men lived, Sainsbury would remove his cap while doing so.

At a time like this he would learn infinitely more about a ship than her brightwork and boats and messdeck cleanliness could tell him.

They might be discussing the painting of a messdeck, Matheson thought.

The man ahead was unrecognisable, and already he was through the first messdeck door - the alarm would have been given.

When Rennie stepped into the messdeck Beuring was sitting at the table with only three men for company.

It was then he wondered, idly and briefly, at the sudden return to his old form which the exchange on the messdeck had represented.

In a moment he would rouse the duty petty officer and go to the messdecks and haul any malingerer out of his hammock, bedding and all.

Washed-out blue skies, damp, listless air which hung in messdecks and cabins and painted everything with a dull, misty finish.

Down on the messdecks the off-duty watch sat or crouched in their seagoing gear, knowing the alarm bells would soon be sounding.

Offensive to many, but a welcome scandal as far as the overcrowded messdecks were concerned.