Courtenay, who seemed to be everywhere at once, lighted torches which were fastened to the empty davits in readiness for a night alarm.
Tollemache and Walker had dragged out of the smothering spray near the port davits three men who seemed to be merely stunned.
He found that two boats had been cleared of their hamper and lowered on thedavits until they could be swung in on the promenade deck.
Courtenay and Boyle saw two boats wrenched from their davits and carried overboard, while a bulkhead forward was smashed into matchwood.
But the boat had now gained the tall fabric's side; the tackles had been hooked into her, and even whilst she was soaring to the davits the great main topsail yard of the Carthusian came slowly round, and the sails to the royal filled.
The aftermost boat was then swung through the davits over the side, four or five men entered her, and a minute later she sank to the water.
In a very few minutes the quarter-davits on the port side were looking very gaunt and forlorn, while a good five hundredweights of wood soaked in crude oil helped to feed the ravenous furnaces.
From the lee side of the boat-deck a row of empty davits overhung the black water, the lower blocks of the disengaged falls flogging the ship's side like a series of blows with a sledge-hammer.
The boats in davits were creaking and groaning, as they strained against their gripes with each disconcerting jerk of the ship.
With the telephones clipped to his head he sat in the open doorway of his "dog-box", watching the ever-changing seascape so far as a couple of boats in davits permitted.
Had Dick come on deck two minutes sooner the bow of the yacht Gypsey would have been thrown up in the wind and that tiny launch lowered from the boat's davits in less time than it takes to tell of it.
I hate to do it, but we can't tow the skiff and, of course, it would be torn off of the davits in two minutes.
The Irene was of less than three feet draft, and towed or carried on her davits a small launch and a skiff.
One of the starboard boats had been stove in, and the davits twisted with the force of a wave that had come aboard.
As he spoke, the rattle of the boat-davits was heard.
To these davits I would add light blocks and tackles, so that in a few seconds the whole dummy show could be swept on one side and the gun brought into play.
The ship was now listing badly to starboard, and, taking a swivel chair which an operator offered to me, I slid down into the water and to a boat which was still attached to the davits and which was partly covered with water.
The tackle broke on one of four or five boats I saw lowered, while one dropped from thedavits and split in two.
On the port side many of the davits wouldn't work and the boats would not go over.
The professor deftly turned the davits outward, and there hung the boat at the quarter in the exact position she would have occupied in an ordinary ship.
The ropes and sheets were wet and fuzzy with the moisture that had settled upon them, and the sails looked heavy and sodden with dampness, the decks and the two boats hanging from the davits wet and shining with moisture.
I lashed two on ‘em together and let myself down from the davits with one hand, holding my pistol with t’ other.
She was fitted with 16 lifeboats 30 feet long, swung on davitsof the Welin double-acting type.
The launching is an important matter: the Titanic's davits worked excellently and no doubt were largely responsible for all the boats getting away safely: they were far superior to those on most liners.
As we watched, the cranks were turned, the davits swung outwards until the boats hung clear of the edge of the deck.
He spoke kindly and confidently and they stood clear while the davitswere out-swung.
Wait 'til you've been southabout in a starvation Scotch wind-jammer big enough to carry this coaster on her davitsand with hardly enough men in two watches to swing her yards raound.
In the port bow boats and the starboard quarter boats hanging on the davits there were two sailors armed with muskets.
Lalia had clung to the davits with me when the sea struck us, and was now almost exhausted.
The huge rollers dashing swiftly past her weather-beaten sides, made her roll so heavily that the boats on the davits nearly touched the water with their keels.
By clinging to the iron boat davits near me, I managed to save myself from being carried overboard with the debris of spars and timber that swept aft.
The deck was unobstructed aft, except for a small boat swung to davits astern, and the cabin transoms.
In a twinkling the necessary orders were given, the Bertha Hamilton lost way and rounded to, and a boat manned by six sailors was dropped from the davits on the lee side.
The boats were both hoisted to the davits and quietness again reigned on the schooner.
Then four of us got out of the boat, leaving one to drop her under the davits and hook on the falls.
Above on the bows were wooden-stocked anchors stowed inboard, and aft on the quarters were iron davits with blocks intact--but no falls.
The boats were washed from thedavits and the thirty-four persons who were saved reached the shore by swimming.
A boat which hung at the davits was smashed to bits, torn away, and carried off to sea.
The Buistry is damaged; there are breakages in the Sissoi: in the Jemchug the davits broke and a cutter sank.
I lay down hoping to rest, but it was not to be; I had to go to the Sissoi--her davits had broken.
The davits were taken down to-day and sent to the Kamchatka, where, in hoisting them on board, they fell into the water and sank.
A gruff order had been given: in the bustle that ensued the ship began to fall off to leeward; a number of the crew had sprung to the davits of the quarter boat.
She had lost one of her spars, and her starboard davits rolled emptily.
Swing the davits outboard, and pass your painters forward.
And then he went to where the davits dangled over the water, and slid down to the boat, while the frightened crew cursed him aloud for keeping them waiting.
The third mate went down to his boat, and the three rowers took her across to the M'poso, where she was hauled up to davits again.
From it also projects the davits for hoisting up the boats.
Our boat was knocked to fragments, and the davits carried away.
They are not safe in the davits on an ocean voyage, and two of them carried inboard completely block the deck amidships; but a yacht of 500 tons or more can perfectly carry both, if a steam launch is considered necessary.
I had taken the wheel, a sudden squall heeled us over to the starboard side, where the gig was hung from the davits outboard.
Anywhere on the coast she can generally be carried in the davits with her mast stepped and rigged, so that there is nothing to do but to lower the ballast into her and loose the sails, and she is ready to start.
The small boat suspended from projected davits at the height of 30 feet above the Rock, as shown in Plate VIII.
A small boat, which could be lowered at pleasure, was therefore suspended by a pair of davits projected from the cook-house, the keel being about 30 feet from the Rock, as will be seen from Plate VIII.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "davits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
