How To Use Hatchway In A Sentence
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Over the hatchway was a wheel by which the food of the convicts was lowered into the hold at morning, noon, and night; at other times it was used for raising in an iron cage, from the lower decks, convicts who were allowed exercise, but the weight of whose irons prevented their ascending by the companionways.
The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
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A mariner emerges from the hatchway and climbs the rigging, while below the boatswain and ship's master are thrown about on deck.
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Blatheration!" exclaimed my chum, smacking the butt of his rifle on the deck and making the petty officer who was on the other side of the hatchway jump round in a jiffy, looking marline-spikes in our direction.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy
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Blair laughed, then followed Jim through the hatchway and up the stairs to the pilot house.
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To drop through the hatchway was the work of an instant, when I at once saw what was the matter.
The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"
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The stricken ship is presented simply but effectively using a rope ladder for the rigging, which hung from the ceiling above a trapdoor, which served as the ship's hatchway.
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The tower has a hatchway to the roof and the crenellated parapet has panoramic coastal views.
Times, Sunday Times
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Near the center of the kiva two short timbers are laid across the two main beams about 5 feet apart; this is done to preserve a space of 5 by 7 feet for the hatchway, which is made with walls of stone laid in mud plaster, resting upon the two central beams and upon the two side pieces.
A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228
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Thus shut in, its hatchways looked like the entrance to deep vaults or mines; especially as her men were wheeling out of her hold some kind of ore, which might have been gold ore, so scrupulous were they in evening the bushel measures, in which they transferred it to the quay; and so particular was the captain, a dark-skinned whiskerando, in a Maltese cap and tassel, in standing over the sailors, with his pencil and memorandum-book in hand.
Redburn. His First Voyage
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She was now approaching the bent wreckage of a hatchway door, so she slowed and maneuvered carefully around it.
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The bulkheads were low and sections were separated with hatchways that sat about eight inches above the floor.
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This diver is entering the wreck through a broken hatchway.
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Pushing upward through the hatchway was a smooth, square column of cat.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales
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Just before he hit forward on the flight deck, I dove head-first into an open hatchway to avoid the fireball and explosion.
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They sat on the open deck, using a battened hatchway as a table, and feasted on fresh produce purchased on the quay.
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Once connected all the ramps lit up and the hanger door opened meaning that the hatchways to the rest of the ship and the control room were sealed.
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As they came through the hatchway at the bottom of the sail, the entire crew, dressed in formal dress attire, snapped to attention.
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With only an instant's hesitation, Simon scrambled down the ladder into the hatchway.
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'And if it also comes on to blow and rain uncommonly hard, we take battens, stout laths of wood, that fit against the coaming, the raised rim of the hatchway, and so pin the tarpaulin down drum tight.
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Just before he hit forward on the flight deck, I dove head-first into an open hatchway to avoid the fireball and explosion.
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The 20-minute tour, which documents the full 167 feet of the space station's pressurized modules, was recorded by NASA Flight Engineer Michael Barratt to show Mission Control how equipment and supplies are arranged and stored, and to provide engineers with a detailed assessment of each module-to-module hatchway.
NASA Watch: June 2009 Archives
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He lowered the glasses through which he was scanning the sea and pointed down the hatchway that opened into the big after-room beneath.
CHAPTER XVIII
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Other small huts on the deck cover a hatchway below decks and the rigging store.
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She grabbed a jacket on the way outside, and went through the hatchway to the deck.
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Those hatchways weren't really meant for human access, but she was a little double-jointed so she'd been able to wriggle up and into the ship without too much problem.
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Because, as the hatchway ground shut at the center of his dazed vision, something far more shocking took hold - a total and absolute silence.
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When we arrived on the dock some of the cargo was still being loaded - some sad-looking cattle were being urged through a large hatchway into the bowels of the ship, lowing miserably as they went.
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He ran up the ladder, and soon my portmanteau blackened the hatchway, and a great straining and squeezing began.
The Riddle of the Sands
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As John Paul retreated, he could feel his heel strike the coaming, or edge, of a hatchway.
John Paul Jones
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Abaft the hatchway was a door on the starboard side which I opened, and found a narrow dark passage.
The Frozen Pirate
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The two of them headed down the hatchway to the lowest deck.
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A mariner emerges from the hatchway and climbs the rigging, while below the boatswain and ship's master are thrown about on deck.
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A glance up the hatchway showed the giant that the arms he had planned to seize were defended by ten firelocks, and that, behind the open doors of the partition which ran abaft the mizenmast, the remainder of the detachment stood to their arms.
For the term of his natural life
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He was going to find the manual door controls but as soon as he stepped near the hatchway, they slowly opened up automatically and the light started flowing through.
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Stowing away his "dunnage," therefore, in the after deck - house, and flinging his bedding into the berth which he selected for his own occupation, he quickly rejoined the mate, who furnished him with book and pencil, and stationed him at the after hatchway to take account of everything which passed down that receptacle.
The Missing Merchantman
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A hatchway between leads back into the forecastle, a tight and very silty space should you feel inclined to explore.
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All that could be seen of the two craft that the ship possessed were the two identical hatchways, which led into the darkness of the interior of the pods.
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See if the hatchway is down, and show her where to put her clothes.
Ten Days in a Mad-House
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They were about to go through a hatchway down to the bilges when they were suddenly accosted by a watchman, who had heard noises and left the party to investigate.
Shadow Knights
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The forward storeroom can be exited through an open hatchway upward to the bow deck.
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I would enter the cabin through a waterproof Plexiglas hatchway that was nineteen inches square.
Excerpt: A Pearl in the Storm by Tori Murden McClure
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When we arrived on the dock some of the cargo was still being loaded - some sad-looking cattle were being urged through a large hatchway into the bowels of the ship, lowing miserably as they went.
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She reached the hatchway and checked to see if it was booby-trapped.
ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
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Those hatchways weren't really meant for human access, but she was a little double-jointed so she'd been able to wriggle up and into the ship without too much problem.
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Of course I assisted him as well as I could under the circumstances, but as he limped along towards the companion-hatchway, the leader of the desperadoes, that villainous "marquis," who I thought had met with his just deserts long since, not having seen him for some little time among the other fighters, most unexpectedly jumped from the rigging in front of the colonel and aimed a vindictive blow at him with a marline-spike.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
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Soldiers began to emerge from the swollen hatchways on the surface like ants pouring forth from their hill.
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A huge oaken door with a small hatchway halfway up loomed in front of Wolf.
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The miscreants who had boarded the vessel had apparently been all over her in search of anything that might be worth carrying away, and, among other places, they had explored the lazarette, which lay beneath the cabin, a small hatchway just abaft the mizenmast giving access to it.
Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
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They go over the interior surface of the walls, breaking off projections and filling up the interstices with small stones, and then they smoothly plaster the walls and the inside of the hatchway with mud, and sometimes whitewash them with a gypsiferous clay found in the neighborhood.
A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228
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Then both brothers startled as the engine room hatchway grated open, the metal protesting as it had to be forced.
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He then opened the maintenance hatchways, removed the covers and began the slow job of pulling canister after canister of spent activated charcoal from their holders.
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They emerged from the hatchway into a dimly lit place that hummed with the sound of strange machinery in operation.
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Halfway down the steps leading to this deck, an open hatchway leads beneath the wheelhouse.
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The log lists a steady trickle of desertions thereafter, including the name of the hero of the battle off Flamborough Head, William Hamilton, the brave seaman who climbed out on the mainyard and dropped the grenade through the hatchway on the Serapis.
John Paul Jones
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Access to caponiers was by iron hatchway.
