How To Use between decks In A Sentence
- She was three hundred and eighty tons burden, ship-rigged, and was equipped with a horizontal engine, placed between decks, with boilers in the hold. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
- No distinction of rank was made by the jailors on the Jersey, but the prisoners themselves agreed to allow the officers to occupy the extreme afterpart of the ship, between decks, called the gun-room. American Prisoners of the Revolution
- That she was low "between decks" is demonstrated by the fact that it was necessary to "cut down" the Pilgrims 'shallop -- an open sloop, of certainly not over 30 feet in length, some 10 tons burden, and not very high "freeboard" -- "to stow" her under the MAY-FLOWER'S spar deck. The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
- Writing of the conditions in steerage, one cabin passenger commented ‘poor creatures, it is a horrible place between decks, so many people in so small a space, I wonder how they live.’
- The Genoese commander wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel.
- In addition, there are under the beams three rows of vertical stanchions between decks, and one row in the lower hold from the keelson. The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912
- This day an allegator was seen to swim about us for some time; and at high water we made another effort to float the ship, which happily succeeded: We found however that by lying so long with her head a-ground, and her stern a-float, she had sprung a plank between decks, a-breast of the main-chains, so that it was become necessary to lay her ashore again. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
- He found the fore hatch off and also the lazarett hatch off with a great deal of water between decks.
- It's not as complex as it sounds, because many internal bulkheads have collapsed and hatches between decks are all open.