Hythe found himself on a flat deck nearly two hundred feet in length, and unbroken save for the low coamings of three hatchways and the fore and aft conning-towers.
They were not a second too soon, for the water was rising over the deck and lapping against the coamings of the hatchway.
Next for the coamings round the well in which to sit.
The use of these is both to strengthen the shapes themselves and to make them fit firmly and tightly to the keel, also to make supports for the coamings round the well, to be described later.
Thus relieved, the ship partially recovered herself; but she still had a heavy list to starboard, and was floating so deep that the water constantly washed over the deck as far as the lee coamings of the hatchways as she rolled.
Lying prone by the side of the hatchway coamings the Japs quietly severed the ropes, then retraced their course, and, through General Oki's interpretation, announced that the hatches were ready to be forced open from the inside.
The jib and staysail sheets also lead aft, through bull's-eye fair-leads fixed inside the bulwarks, and are belayed to cleats screwed on to the coamings of the cockpit.
The coamings of the hatchways, as well as the inner edges of the hatches themselves, are lined with india-rubber, so as to render the covers perfectly water-tight.
The gunner followed, and in less than a minute the whole crew were over the shattered coamingsof the hatchway and on deck, ready to encounter the enemy.
You're young, and you're full to the coamings with confidence.
As though they were an invitation to work, shovels were made fast along the coamings of the hatch.
Are raised coamings on a steamer's deck, to form coverings for the cranks of the engines below.
A framing composed ofcoamings and head-ledges raised above the deck, with a top which shuts closely over into a rabbet.
Loop-holes were made in the coamings for firing muskets from below, in order to clear the deck of an enemy when a ship is boarded.
Also, the receptacle round the coamings of hatchways.
Spike ascertained by actual measurement how much was wanted to bring the coamings of the main-hatch above the water, until which, he knew, pumping and bailing would be useless.
In the vicinity of the main-hatch there were several inches of water; enough indeed to leave the upper edge of the coamings submerged by about an inch.
Here, to his joy, he ascertained that the coamings had actually risen a little above the water.
It will be remembered that water could now only enter the vessel's hold at the main-hatch, all the other hatchways having their coamings above the element.
Tepi in terror-stricken tones, as he clutched the coamings and looked seaward.
I peer from the fore end of the engine-room over the hatch-coamings into the coach.
One looks down over the coamings three hundred feet to the despatching-caisson whence voices boom upward.
The water is pretty well up to the coamings already, and my weight won't make the difference which yours might.
About a month afterwards, as Adair was going forward, he saw a whitehaired man sitting on the coamings of the fore-hatchway.
To my joy the canoe, which still floated with its coamings out of water, although the well was full, followed my line.
The coamings were on fire, the pitch was beginning to bubble and boil out of the seams of the deck planking, and the planks themselves were already uncomfortably hot to stand upon.
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