The blow missed him, but the blade cut an inch deep in the quarterdeck rail, and there broke.
Captain Penrose then appeared on the quarterdeck with a sorrowful countenance.
If none of the quarterdeck officers have thought of going, he'll not refuse.
Captain Penrose in a cheerful voice as he walked the quarterdeck with some of his officers.
Added to them were a party of small-arm men prepared for the same object, or ready to board if required, while others were stationed there to fight the quarterdeck guns, or to attend the braces.
Walsingham, my dear fellow," said Captain Penrose to his younger brother Captain as they were taking a turn on the quarterdeck after dinner, "I do not altogether like the look of the weather.
Do your duty in whatever station you are placed, on the quarterdeckor fo'castle, in the tops aloft or at the guns on the main or lower-deck, and leave the rest to God.
While still hoping to avoid the last extreme resource of cutting away the masts, the carpenter appeared on the quarterdeck with an expression of consternation on his countenance.
The brave old Captain walked the quarterdeck as coolly as if no enemy was in sight, casting an eye aloft every now and then, to assure himself that the flag, which he had resolved should fly to the last, was still untouched.
Whether the cessation of the roar of the guns made Sam Smatch careless, is uncertain; but just as a ninety-gun ship was bearing down on the gallant Fame, who should appear on the quarterdeck but little Billy True Blue!
Well, as to the quarterdeck idea, we all met and had a talk about it.
We may fall in with one of our own squadrons, or we may manage to keep ahead of the enemy till night, and then I shall have no fear of them," observed the Captain as he walked the quarterdeck with his first lieutenant.
He strode gruffly to the quarterdeck railing and bellowed orders forward to the bow.
Remember, you're not on yourquarterdeck today, so I needn't harken to your every wish.
Again the Gloucester's guns flared, and a whistle sang across the quarterdeck as the shot clipped the railing next to where they were standing.
Katy, try and keep her the hell off the quarterdeck and out of the way.
Before she could move, there were shouts from the quarterdeck above, then the trampling of feet down the companionway leading to the waist of the ship.
John Mewes' groggy voice broke the silence as he started awake, then rose and stretched and ambled across the quarterdeck toward the bannister where she stood.
But she saw John Mewes raise his heavy eyebrows as he mounted the quarterdeck companionway, his wide belly rolling with each labored step.
He was still gripping her hand as he led her into the companionway, a dark hallway beneath the quarterdeck illuminated by a single lantern swaying in the gusts of wind.
Tom, ready the guns and when I give the order, lay a few rounds across the quarterdeck of the Rainbowe anchored down there.
Then the mast groaned against the wind, a seaman on the quarterdeck unlashed the helm, and in moments they had begun to pull away.
Anthony had seen Edmond Calvert mount the quarterdeck to watch as the guns in the breastwork were turned around and directed inland, part of his conditions.
Chapter Ten As the bell on the Rainbowe struck the beginning of the first watch, Edmond Calvert stood on the quarterdeck studying the thin cup of crescent moon that hung suspended in the west.
We bowed, and immediately the whole party stepped forth into the air, and formed a circle on the quarterdeck round the capstan.
I had no sooner reached the quarterdeck than I met Sprawl.
Napoleon generally walked the quarterdeck about eleven in the forenoon, and half past six in the afternoon.
Immediately after each meal he rose first, and the others followed; he then either went on the quarterdeck or in the after-cabin to study.
On our leaving the Bellerophon in the morning to visit the Superb, Napoleon stopped short in front of the guard drawn up on the quarterdeck to salute him.
Brian saw that the grenades had indeed fired the ship forward, while the explosion had sent the quarterdeck into a burst of fire also, and the lowered but unfurled sails were roaring up in flame.
His tale was that at seven bells in the forenoon watch he had all hands mustered on the quarterdeck and told them they had better go down to say good-bye to the captain.
They were assembled on the quarterdeck for the purpose.
Illustration: Marines Drilling on the Quarterdeck of a British Battleship.
At one time I was climbing up the quarterdeck when the vessel's stem was in the sky; I was smoking a cigar and feeling passably comfortable.
He dropped it on a portion of the quarterdeck where the pitch was oozing, kicked it about with his feet to spread it out, as a man does with a handful of straw, and stood upon it.
Without James sitting near me on the quarterdeck on black-dark evenings in the tropics, I should have felt very strange and lonesome indeed.
Never into my quarterdeck dreams, gentlemen, had there come, strange to say, a companion fair of womankind.
But into my quarterdeckdreams companions had come.
I was walking the quarterdeck smoking, when pale and scared she rushed toward me.
Suddenly I pulled myself taut up with a round turn, and planked myself, so to speak, on my mental quarterdeck before Commander Conscience.
Sometimes on thequarterdeck it would suddenly occur to the 'Ral that a step or two of a Highland schottische would help to make time pass more quickly and pleasantly.
So my quarterdeck dream has become a dear reality.
In the afternoon upon the quarterdeck the Doctor told Mr. North and me an admirable story called "The Fruitless Precaution," an exceeding pretty story and worthy my getting without book when I can get the book.
Mr Stevenson himself stood on the quarterdeck of the little vessel, and waved his hand to assure those on the beacon that they had sheered off in time, and were safe.
It was very natural that when Minnie paced the quarterdeckbetween the stern and the mainmast, and Ruby paced the forepart of the deck between the bows and the mainmast, the two should occasionally meet at the mainmast.
But sea-life as Cooper knew it was sea-life as seen from the quarterdeck, and from the quarterdeck of the United States navy.
Her sharp stem slashed through the quarterdeck like it was cutting bully beef, slicing five or ten feet of it clean off, so that it fell clear and sank.
He went below just after that to see about ditching the secret books, I believe, and when I saw him again it was just before she sank, and he was pacing the quarterdeck and talking quietly with the First Lieutenant.
The men assembled on the quarterdeckin stern silence.
Flinders was upon thequarterdeck as she steered through her selected gap, which was on the weather quarter of the Eole; and an anecdote of his behaviour on that memorable occasion fortunately survives.
The guns on the quarterdeck were loaded and primed ready for use, but Pasley did not intend to fire them until he had laid himself on the lee of his chosen adversary, and could pour a broadside into her with crushing effect.
What young officer would not have eagerly followed a gallant and warm-hearted Admiral who had first placed him upon a British quarterdeck and had made him an aide-de-camp?
Flinders seized a lighted match and rapidly fired as many of the quarterdeck guns as would plump shot fairly into her.
Get the carronades on the forecastle and quarterdeck loaded, Mr Markham, and look alive; we must show the enemy a bold front, whoever he is.
Captain Trevor was on the quarterdeck and word was passed that target practice would immediately begin.
There is, after all, a gulf between the quarterdeck and the forecastle.
On the quarterdeck of one of the Battleships the Midshipman of the Afternoon Watch rubbed the lense of his telescope with his jacket cuff, adjusted the focus against a stanchion, and prepared to make the most of this heaven-sent diversion.
The Marine bugler steered an unsteady course to thequarterdeck hatchway and sounded the Officers' Dinner Call.
As he descended to the quarterdeck he met the Officer of the Watch.
While on the quarterdeck there is no such superstitious thought, a feeling almost as intense agitates the minds of those there assembled.
At sight of them the discharged sailor salutes promptly, and with as much respect as if all were on the quarterdeck of the Crusader.
A prey to saddened thoughts are the two young officers, as they stand on the quarterdeck of the Chilian vessel taking the altitude of the sun, with instruments her own skipper is no longer able to use.
Nelson was pacing his quarterdeck fiercely, and took no notice of the report.
Send a couple of hands to open the two quarterdeck ports," I said, mildly.
Not a man stirred on the deck save the lieutenant of the watch, who walked the quarterdeck with his glass in his hand; now lifting it to his eye, and now throwing a glance aloft to see how the sails were drawing.
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