Coal bunkers form a protection for the engines and boilers.
These controls are administered by the Ministry of Fuel and Power on an informal basis, in cooperation with British oil companies which deny bunkers to ships carrying strategic cargo to China.
The bunkers had been trimmed, decks washed down, and the hideous but necessary coaling-screens stowed away.
Unaccountably the consumption was much above the average, with the awkward result that the bunkers were nearly empty.
To know the six little Bunkers is to take them at once to your heart, they are so intensely human, so full of fun and cute sayings.
In the bunkers the space between the inner and outer skins of the vessel will be filled with woodite, thus forming a wall five feet thick against machine gun fire.
Forward and abaft of the coal bunkers the coffer-dam will be filled with some water-excluding substance similar to woodite.
Before she could arrive at this, she could see a vista of bunkers ahead of her to negotiate which all her gifts of intrigue would have, happily, to be exercised.
To give interest and excitement to her plan of becoming Fallaray's wife in fact, as well as by law, she required bunkers and needed difficulties.
The bunkers that she had found in his nature were those of fastidiousness, not often belonging to men.
Straight down the one-in-three incline from the port to the starboard bunkers lolloped the Juggernaut, dashing the protesting anatomies of the stokers to left and right as it went.
The work in the holds of the collier and the bunkers of the battleship, while perhaps a shade less strenuous physically than barrow-pushing, is a deal more dusty and unpleasant.
Special instructions are given that the sacks shall be completely filled, and that no pieces of coal too large to go down the chutes to the bunkers should be put in them.
It had been a long and difficult passage, but at last the Bunkers landed.
But don't you think the Bunkers have more fun than we do?
Uncle Ben had landed the band at Rippleton, and had housed the Sylph, so that the Bunkers would no longer be restrained by his presence and that of Mrs. Sedley.
Two months ago, when the Bunkers first began to amuse themselves with the raft, the idea of procuring it occurred to me.
Frank continued his story, and incidentally remarked that the Bunkers had just rowed Joe Braman to Rippleton, where he intended to take the cars for Boston.
He had not forgotten Tony's interference on the island, when he was about to thrash Frank Sedley; and among the Bunkers he expressed his intention to be fully revenged.
But theBunkers seem to have a first-rate time on it.
The club boat shot by the raft, on which the wondering Bunkers stood like so many statues.
Frank tried to get away; and when Tony and Charles came to his assistance the other Bunkers attacked them, and the fight became general.
What do you think the Bunkers would say if they should see us about this time?
It was a dangerous state of mind, for with the Bunkers he would probably have been just as forward in a bad cause.
The Bunkers thought this was rather sharp practice, as they floundered about in the water.
There are the Bunkers on their raft," said Tony Weston, pointing down the lake.
The Bunkers evidently had not practised rowing much; for their stroke was irregular, and they splashed the water about like so many porpoises.
That vessel wouldn't float alongside the wharf, and her skipper would sooner fill his bunkers where he'd get passengers and freight.
However, there's not much cargo shipped, and a captain who wanted his bunkers filled would have to make a special call with little chance of picking up any freight.
Since writing the above, I am told that such doors are fitted in the bunkers of more than one ship in the Atlantic trade.
Probably the joint of such a door would weep a little--and there is no necessity for its being hermetically tight--but the object of converting bunkers into spaces of safety would be attained.
But that does not mean that the precaution of having water-tight doors to the bunkers is useless, superfluous, or impossible.
Sidenote: Coal Downtakes] The coal from the coal bunkers is allowed to flow down into the boiler room through two rows of downtakes, one on each side of the central gangway or firing place.
For handling different grades of coal, distributing conveyors are arranged underneath the bunkers for delivering the coal from a particular bunker through gates to the downtake hoppers in front of the boilers, as hereafter described.
The bunkers are separated from each other by the six chimneys spaced along the center line of the boiler house.
The bottom of the bunkersare at the fifth floor, at an elevation of about 66 feet above the basement.
The bunkers are constructed with double, transverse, plate girder frames at each line of columns, combined with struts and ties, which balance the outward thrust of the coal against the sides.
A system of bracing for both the chimney platforms and coal bunkers is carried down to the foundations in traverse planes about 30 feet apart.
These distributing conveyors, one corresponding with each row of downtakes, permits the feeding of coal from any bunker or bunkers to all the boilers when desired.
Soon afterward she stopped the British ship Schargost and expected to refill her coal bunkers from those of the merchantman, but in this she was disappointed, for those of the latter were almost empty.
Captain Thierichens had her towed 1,500 miles, to Easter Island, where the coal was transferred to the bunkers of the Eitel Friedrich, and the crews of her first three victims were put ashore.
When she came into Newport News more than 60 per cent of her crew were suffering from what was thought to be beri-beri; she had but twenty-one tons of coal in her bunkers and almost no ammunition.
The German captain now saw that his long raiding cruise was up, for though he could replenish his stores and bunkers from captured ships he could not make the many repairs which his vessel needed.
As certain repairs to the machinery were needed, and as her coal bunkers were growing empty, the Bear headed to the southward for Unalaska.
Suppose he did stop an Atlantic steamer, suppose he did board her successfully, suppose he got his coal bunkers full, suppose he carried a heap of treasure to his own vessel flying the Jolly Roger and got away with it.
She could take the coal from the bunkers of the ships she held up," suggested the boy.
By 1245, Colonel Schneider’s regiment had worked its way through all bottlenecks past the mangrove swamps, destroying bunkers with demolitions and flamethrowers.
The Japanese Agat command had prepared its defenses well with thick-walled bunkers and smaller pillboxes.
After receiving extremely heavy fire from all emplaced Japanese forces, the Marines worked on cleaning out bypassed bunkers together with the now-landed tanks.
Thus, one torpedo flooded some or all of the coal bunkers on the starboard side of Nos.
As the side coal bunkers are regarded as compartments, the ship could not float with two boiler rooms flooded and also an adjacent bunker, and, therefore, the damage done by one torpedo was enough to sink the ship.
They had filled up their bunkers with coal at Auckland, and they hoped to avoid the necessity of touching at Rio, or any other place for fuel.
The only way to do this was to creep under the bunkersamong the bilge water, an unpleasant and dangerous task.
A river that the little Bunkers had not before seen flowed here in a great curve which Cowboy Jack spoke of as the Oxbow Bend.
It was interesting for the four little Bunkers to watch Black Bear get rid of the paint with which his face was smeared.
And they knew that Cowboy Jack, at least, was very much amused by the fact that the little Bunkers had not guessed the mystery of the Indians and soldiers now on his ranch.
So, you see, that story is called "Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's.
Perhaps that is why the little Bunkers were willing to eat fewer of Maria's nice waffles.
Mr. Habback thanked the Bunkers when the work was done, and in the middle of the afternoon Cowboy Jack took them all back to the ranch house again in his big blue car, one of his cowboys leading in Pinky and the pinto pony later.
For evening had come, and soon the little Bunkers would be put to bed.
They had to tell the other little Bunkers before breakfast about what had happened; but they never saw the fat man again, for he left the train at a station quite early.
Such a September rain the six little Bunkers had never seen before, for the very good reason that they had never before been at the seashore during what Daddy Bunker and Captain Ben called "the September equinox.
Black Bear and Little Elk and the other Indians welcomed the little Bunkers very kindly.
So none of the six little Bunkers saw the surprise that night.
This is gravely retarded by bunkers much subdivided.
Milly went out in the train with Hazel Fredericks, who took this occasion to air her views of the Bunkers and the Billmans more fully than she had before.
High pastures interspersed with natural bunkers consisting of quarries, gorse, ridges, and roads.
The hazards consist of natural sandbunkers and sandhills with bent, and are ideal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bunkers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
