At length, the constables instituted another search along the orlop deck, and in the cable tier.
The chronicles of the time also relate how at daylight on Christmas morning, when the water was reported as being up to the orlop deck and gaining two feet an hour, many of the people desponded and gave themselves up for lost.
Should powder be received on board in barrels, the hoops and heads must be started on the orlop or berth deck before entering the magazine.
The Carpenter will see that the hatches on the deck next above the berth-deck or orlop are properly covered with gratings and tarpaulins, and that the air-ports are closed and secured.
One man, on the orlop or berth deck, at the passing-scuttle through the deck above, to pass up full boxes.
Each delivering-passage is to have, for the distribution of powder, at least as many passing-scuttles communicating with the orlop or berth deck as there are chains of scuttles above.
One man at the passage-scuttle on the orlop or berth deck, to receive the charges and pass them to the screen.
One man in the passage to receive and pass those charges through the scuttle in the orlop or berth deck.
In large vessels he will cause a cot with a spare sacking-bottom, or such other apparatus as may be approved by the Surgeon, to be prepared and kept for the purpose of lowering the wounded to the orlop or berth deck.
The pump is then worked so as to draw water from the outside and fill the orlop deck and its gallery.
All round the hold and the orlop deck runs an air-tight gallery connected with the other compartments only by stop-cocks.
When the hydrostat floats, the hold and a portion of the shaft are filled with water; while the orlop deck, its gallery and the between decks are full of air.
The upper compartment is called the between decks, and the middle one the orlop deck.
As the orlop deck, with its gallery, fills with water the machine gets heavier and sinks, while the hold becomes at the same time filled with air.
At the same time the force-pump is used to force air into the hold through a pipe connecting the hold and the orlop deck, and furnished with a stop-cock.
Though the air thus forced into the hold would tend to float the hydrostat, this tendency is counterbalanced by the filling of the orlop deck with water.
He was on his way to see that all proper preparations had been made in the space devoted to his service on the orlopdeck for the reception of the wounded.
I slipped on my clothes and hurried down to the orlop deck.
Sand had filled up the hollows among the stone ballast, and there was only a broken orlop beam in his way.
The sand was well up her bilge, but she was holding together, and when I swam round to the open end of her there didn't seem much in the way except the orlop beams.
And the carpenter trotted away to a job he happened to have, singularly enough, in the hold, just under the after orlop deck, and below the floor of the bullion-room.
Still he prowled about the after orlop deck, and talked at large of his anxiety for the contents of the bullion-room.
The hatchway of the lower deck was open, and down this they passed to the orlop deck.
On the orlop deck he halted an instant before passing down into the hold; below, there would be many people, while here, for the moment, he was alone.
Fine Pleasant Weather, Employed getting down the Main Rigging | taking up the Orlop Decks.
He was now on the main orlop deck, and proceeded to make his way, as before, between the upper deck and the oil-casks to the main hatchway.
On the orlop deck there was space enough for my body (as I have stated) between the oil-casks and the upper deck; a space was left open around the main hatchway; and several other large spaces were left in the stowage.
By midnight we had settled very deep in the water, which was now up to the orlop deck.
It was near daybreak, however, before he completed the second division of the board (which was about a foot above the first cut), thus making an aperture quite large enough to admit his passage through with facility to the main orlop deck.
Slipping on his bath-robe, he opened the door and tentatively peered out into the half-light of the orlop deck from the cross corridor vestibule-way, for indications of a shambles.
In his own memoranda he writes: "Four or five hundred Frenchmen were transferred as prisoners to the orlop deck of the Jersey.
He cut away three iron bars let into an aperture on the side of the ship on the orlop deck, formerly a part of her hold.
The lower hold and theorlop deck were such a terror that no man would venture down into them.
At this time it was observed that the water had not a passage to the well, for here there was so much that it washed against the orlop deck.
By three-quarters after eight the water was up to our orlop gratings, and there was a great quantity between decks so that the ship was water logged; when we cut away all the masts, by which she righted.
While these preparations were making, the ship was gradually sinking, the orlop decks having been blown up by the water in the hold, and the cables floated to the gun-deck.
They sent us down to the orlop or lowest deck, a foul place where was no air nor light, and shut the hatches down on top of us.
At this stage of the proceedings, Sefton and his brother were ordered below, and placed in a cell on the orlop deck, twelve feet or more below the waterline.
Having seen the would-be victims of German Kultur safely on their way to the upper deck, Devereux realized that it was quite time to make good his own escape, for the water was beginning to surge for'ard along the sombre orlop deck.
The carpenters had, in the meantime, been engaged in scuttling the orlop deck, so that water might be poured down in great quantities.
Having descended to the orlop deck, he was attempting to go down into the cockpit, when several men rushed by him, crying out that the fire was increasing.
He then ascended to the orlop deck, made his way first into one tier, then into another, in both of which he found the smoke issuing exceedingly thick from forward.
When Orlop had told his plan, one of the thirty answered: "We are not strong enough to slay Anhusei in his sleep; should he awake he would kill us all.
When the Chamberlain Orlop heard this he leaped for joy, embraced the fellow who had given this wicked advice, and rewarded him more than the rest.
Having inspected the waist of the ship, the main and upper gundecks, he led me below to the orlop deck, where right aft was situated the gunroom or midshipmen's mess.
Below the orlop deck we went, passing down a steep ladder to the flats, or part of the ship immediately above the ballast.
Howbeit, reaching the ladder, I got me to the orlop (and mighty thankful) and so to the upper deck, to find a wondrous fair night breathing a sweet and balmy air and with a round moon uprising against a great plenitude of stars.
Under the orlop deck forward there is wooden panelling, with linoleum over the deck.
Above the orlop deck aft there is a layer of cork, and above this a floor of boards covered with linoleum.
As before, it mounted as high as the orlop beams; it then stopped, and was pumped out again by eight o'clock on the ensuing morning.
The water continued to rush into the vessel until it reached the orlop beams; then as suddenly it stopped.
All this was about to be Mr Pigtop's, our kind messmate, and respectable mate of theorlop deck.
The ball took a slanting direction through the main and orlop decks, and came out just below the water-line, making instantly a leak that we could not affect to despise.
I jest heered the bosun givin' orders for a gang to go down on the orlop deck.
Sail-rooms, devoted to the sails, are on the orlop deck, and are inclosed for the reception of the spare sails.
Also, thick planks lying fore and aft under the beams of the first orlop or second deck, the same as the rising-timbers are to the deck.
The lowest and aftermost part of the orlop deck, where the biscuit is kept, separated by a bulk-head from the rest; but any place parted off from below deck for containing the bread is so designated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orlop" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
