I understand that there is a spare bunk in the deckhouse where the boatswain and carpenter are quartered.
My foremast would not mend his boom, my deckhouse patch his boats; He has whittled the two, this Yank Yahoo, to peddle for shoe-peg oats.
Little curled up inside the deckhouse also, but shivering at the touch of sodden couches, he returned to the deck outside and fell to pacing back and forth in hope of adding to the fatigue earned in the hold.
And it had come from one of only two possible directions: from aft, or from the deckhouse; and the deckhouse was empty.
The Barang had a deckhouse companion,--that is, a square house built over and around the head of the companionway stairs, forming a convenient chart room for the officers or a snug smoking lounge for possible passengers.
Satisfied with the steering, he passed along the poop towards the deckhouse and leaned against the lee forward corner of it, scanning the lofty, indistinct leeches of the forward canvas.
Titania, with the whitedeckhouse and shade-deck, carried a good load on a light draught, and sometimes picked up a profitable cargo in shallow African lagoons.
Opposite Barbara, the gap between the low roof and dock-sill was filled by a deckhouse and a steamer's funnel.
He made a flying leap aboard and vanished round the deckhouse to the river side.
Instead of descending the stairway, the girl slipped out by the other door, and flitted forward in the shadow of the deckhouse until she came upon Desmond standing beneath the bridge.
The blinding deluge which had delayed him for half an hour had just ceased, and at every roll boat and deckhouse shook off streams of lukewarm water.
As the two men disappeared round the deckhouse he heard their hoarse laughter ring out.
They passed round the deckhouse and Hilliard could not hear the reply.
In a moment he was over it and on deck, and in another moment he had slipped round the deckhouse and out of the light of the lamp.
She moved away, and Grahame, calling one of the men to furl the awning, went into the deckhouse and deliberately pored over a chart.
Walthew nodded to show that he understood, for it might be dangerous to use the telegraph gong; and then he disappeared below while Grahame stood still, steadying the glasses on the deckhouse top.
Hove down by the pressure of the wind on deckhouseand awning, she had buried her lee bulwarks and lifted her weather side.
A man came along the deckhouse and put his arm round her waist as the ship gave a wild lurch.
So the Captain called Sunday aft, and held brief conversation with him, after which the boy went into the deckhouse and brought out his wife and N'jilong.
Hiram, as we rounded the deckhouse to where the boats had been hanging.
Hiram asked this question respectfully enough, glancing at me; then placed his grip against the deckhouse and deliberately laid across it his shirt, coat, necktie, hat and shoes.
Jimmy had been prepared for such an emergency, and he was on deck in five minutes, fully dressed with his sea-boots and slickers on; and Aynsley joined him in the lee of the deckhouse with a pilot coat over his pajamas.
They went up on deck, and Aynsley saw his father light a cigar and then savagely throw it away; and when he came back after speaking to the skipper Clay was standing in the deckhouse with a small bottle and a wineglass in his hand.
Somebody lighted a blue flare on the deckhouse top, and the strong light showed the gig lurching on the broken heave on the yacht's lee side.
The galley fire was washed out half the time, the deckhouse we lived in was flooded continually; for weeks we hadn't a rag of dry clothes, and very seldom a plateful of warm food.
It increased in size and distinctness; they could see the sweeping curve of bow, the trickle of the stream along the waterline, and the low deckhouse above the rail.
He led Jimmy into a handsome teak deckhouse between the masts, and opened a door into the owner's cabin, which occupied the full width of the house.
Jimmy sat on the deckhouse with his pipe in his hand, and Tom Wheelock, whose face looked careworn in the early light and showed pasty gray patches amidst its bronze, glanced westward a trifle anxiously as he held the jerking wheel.
He broke off somewhat abruptly, for the scuttle slide in the deckhouse roof was flung back, and a man below lifted his head above it.
Fortunately, the men who were on sentry in the alley-ways beside the house made good use of their Sniders, and so gave their comrades time to obtain arms from both the deckhouse and main cabin.
Loosely coiled on top of the deckhouse was a huge coir hawser, and in the centre of it was the man who had called Tom.
It is probable that the lack of passengers is why a second boat, which could have been stowed on the deckhouse roof, was omitted.
Savannah shows a ship-rigged, flush-decked vessel with a small deckhouse forward of the mainmast and nearly abreast of the side paddle wheels.
Two, one either side of the crank, may have been secured to the engine frame just inside the deckhouse walls.
The model has crude wooden side paddles of the radial type, a tall straight smokestack between fore and main masts, a small deckhouse forward of the stack, a raised quarter-deck, and a round stern.
The deckhouse shown in Marestier's sketch extends from a little forward of the mainmast to a little forward of the paddle wheel axle.
In the reconstruction, the deckhouse works out as between 17 and 18 feet long.
The stack is a little forward of the deckhouse and has an elbow at its top.
The sea streamed down her weather side, which rose up like a wall, and Frank could see her wheel behind the low deckhousejerking to and fro.
Then her bows fell off a little farther, the trailing gaff swung out with a bang, and Frank saw the masts fall into line with him and a bent figure behind the deckhousestruggling with the wheel.
The erection of that primitive deckhouse was a matter of propriety rather than of necessity.
Ever since she had secluded herself in the deckhouse in great distress.
He glanced away along his shoulder through the door of the deckhouse at the growing brightness of the day.
What was on Jorgenson's side of the deckhouse no one had seen, but from external evidence one could infer the existence of a set of razors.
As Jorgenson moved toward the deckhouse it occurred to him that perhaps now that woman Tom Lingard had taken in tow might take it into her head to refuse to leave the Emma.
The inside of the deckhouse was full of stagnant heat perfumed by a slight scent which seemed to emanate from the loose mass of Mrs. Travers' hair.
Mrs. Travers and Lingard coming out of the deckhouse stopped just outside the door and Lingard stood the deck-lamp on its roof.
It was then that the sea-chest in the deckhouse was opened for the first time before the interested Mrs. Travers who had followed him inside.
With those words she disappeared inside the deckhouse and presently threads of light appeared in the interstices of the boards.
On the after deck between the Cage and the deckhouse Lingard waited, lantern in hand.
Lighted dimly by the lantern on the roof of the deckhouse Mrs. Travers remained very still with lowered head and an aspect of profound meditation.
At the word of command one of the plates of the perpendicular side of the deckhouseslid out of the way as quickly as a flash.
The vessel had quite a longdeckhouse built of light steel.
I hope the gale is over," said Ralph, coming into the deckhouse and greeting the other lads cheerfully.
The three boys all slept in part of a deckhouse amidships, a place divided between the galley and the apprentices' cabin.
Dan led the way at once into the deckhouse and into a passage-way.
Now, from the deckhouse below a detachment of Uncle Sam's jackies in uniform dashed out.
He himself dashed into the little deckhouse and was out again in an instant with a rifle in his hand.
Again the destroyer's gun roared, and the deckhouse melted in a shower of splinters.
Two guns had been put on board the vessel, but as it was thought advisable to conceal them, and the deckhouse and the masts were in the way, their fire commanded only a limited strip of horizon.
Whitney looked at the warm, well-lighted deckhouse with regret, and then, buttoning his oilskins, followed Andrew down into the boat.
As Sandy and Jerry were led off by the two crewmen, they saw the Captain precede Jones to the foot of the deckhouse ladder.
The two dark figures walked back to the deckhouse and disappeared for a moment in the shadows.
It had a black hull, a white deckhouseand a black stack marked with green stripes.
Thus at least half-an-hour had passed, and the Aldebaran was blowing sideways about as fast as she forged ahead under lower topsails when Appleby reached the deckhouse breathless and dripping.
The Aldebaran's deckhouse was held together by little iron beams, and in place of these great square timbers and ponderous knees ran into the vessel's framing above his head.
Everything in thedeckhouse was wet, as was Niven's face, but though it was drawn and white his eyes were open.
Stickine struck the deckhouse with his foot as he pulled over the wheel, and the Champlain swung round a little, but still the lights seemed to follow her.
It was dryest aft, though there was water splashing everywhere, and the two lads hung about the mainmast where the little deckhouse partly sheltered them, watching the helmsman's grim face as he swung with his wheel.
Niven swilled on water, Appleby plied the swab, but though they got the deck clean the smell would not wash out, and when they crawled under the shelter of the deckhouse among the rest, Appleby gasped as he flung away his swab.
Aft with half his lean height showing above the deckhouse skipper Jordan stood swaying at the wheel, and he swung one hand up when he saw the lads.
The Champlain put her bows in, and Jordan sprang suddenly up on thedeckhouse gazing astern.
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