At his right hand is the midships engine lever ready to be thrown into gear at a moment's notice.
The midships engine, generally used as a reinforce, is not running; so the port and starboard turbine vacuum-chambers draw direct into the return-mains.
His worst suspicions were confirmed when the white ensign was struck and a red flag hoisted in its place, while slowly the 'midships barbette on the starboard side, actuated by manual power, was turned till its pair of 12 in.
The engineer-lieutenant and his staff had barely time to rush through the small manhole and gain the deck ere the 'midships section of the ill-fated Frome was a mass of flames.
He found here and there some bits of boards, flotsam and jetsam of the stream, and on these, spread crosswise, he laid bits of brush, making a little mound midships of his craft.
An imaginary figure of that part of the ship afore the midshipsor dead-flat, as seen from ahead.
The midships tent, which shielded the rowers from the glare of the strong light, was striped with red and blue.
Hitting the light cruiser with every gun at short range she then passed on to try her own torpedoes on the German battle cruisers, when a big shell scooped out most of her midships above the water-line.
With her whole midships a fuming inferno she kept one gun forward and another aft still spitting forth fury and defiance like a wild cat mad with wounds.
Also vertical lines at each end of the midships line must be drawn on the wood, great care being taken to get the midships line on the under face of the layers dead opposite each other.
For running before the wind, separate lines are used, two in number, as illustrated, and the amount of helm is governed by the distance away from midships that the lead is moved.
The extreme forward end of a yacht hull is called the stern, while the portions forward and aft of the midships section are known as the fore and after-body respectively.
The midships turret nearest to us is in hardly better case.
With a very wide keel her midships section was anything but shapely, and ran down almost in a straight line from her bilge, which was very low and square, to the bottom of the lead.
For a boat without luggage the beam should be 1 foot abaft midships to secure an even keel.
He moved to the railing at midships and reached down to help Katherine up the rope ladder.
As they set grimly to work readying their weapons, a row of longboats along midships was unlashed and quietly lowered over the side.
Findin' a crew at stations by a midships gun, Ah speired if they was short o' hauns.
I doubtna oor midships and after guns was firing, but na the foremost, for Ah dinna mind being blinded by their licht afore the Hun projes gan bursting.
Just then another salvo was plastered a-straddle of us, and I saw a fragment of shell knock the sight-setter of the midships gun out of his seat.
I had time more than to see that she had two funnels and many tubes the bursting projes from our foremost and midships guns began knocking her to pieces so fast that I soon saw there was no use of wasting a mouldie on the job.
The bridge was above the main weight of that blow, but 'midships and aft I saw men bracing themselves against a knee-deep stream.
The clouds of black smoke and steam rising 'midships made it impossible to see what was going on there.
One of the guns of the 'midships turret had a sickly droop to it, but the other three turrets were blazing away as merry as ever.
I saw some of the crew of the 'midships gun struggling in the water, and took it that they must have been blown there.
She'd have caught us just about midships if the bridge hadn't sighted her an' done the only thing open to do--turned to meet her head on.
The funny part of it was that it was not the 'midships section of her, where the mouldie hit, that seemed to be lifted by the explosion.
With a rending crash the knife-like bows of the "Vorwartz" crashed into the 'midships compartment of her hitherto unsuspecting rival.
The same route was available for first-class passengers forward ofmidships on B, C, and E decks.
First-class passengers abaft midships on B and C decks could use the staircase in the after main entrance to A deck, and then could pass out onto the deck and by the midships stairs beside the house ascend to the boat deck.
He had a narrow escape, but he finally plumped down into the bottom of the rowboat, righted himself unsteadily, and got on the 'midships thwart.
It had been impossible to devise a way to disinfect the big 'midships hold where the labour recruits were housed, on account of the more or less crazy condition of all of the niggers.
