The crews watched the proceedings from the forecastles with the greatest interest; now and again a half-smothered cheer would break out when the Glasgow's shots fell perilously near the mark.
But once past the entrance the cave widened out until its interior was as spacious as that of half a dozen forecastles knocked into one, with head-room of ten or twelve feet.
It made him think of some forecastles he had lived in when he was a seaman, forecastles on Sunday morning after a Saturday night ashore on the Barbary Coast or in Newcastle, New South Wales.
At the same time the cumbrous forecastles and aftercastles, which must have been equally inconvenient both in action and in a sea way, were removed.
The cause of this accident, which came near being the death of all on board, was nothing but the drowsiness of the look-out men on the forecastles of both ships.
The first part of the night was dark, and there was only a faint starlight into which the anxious eyes of the look-out men peered from the forecastles of the three ships.
A mast was sprung and had to be cut away; another, and the woodwork from the forecastles and high stern works had to be stripped and lashed round the crazy mainmast to preserve it from wholesale destruction.
He has himself seen forecastlesand seamen's chests in first-class ships black from the gas which rises from the cargo, and which smells like sewage, which is especially the case in sugar ships.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forecastles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
