Nothing short of the truly splendid efforts of the engine-room and stokehold personnel of Sturdee's ships would have given their gunners their chance to win the battle of the Falklands.
Although far from an earthly paradise in a ship on an equatorial run, the stokehold of a battleship that is battened down against heavy winter weather is in some respects the most comfortable spot aboard her.
It had been shovelled into a sack of coal, hoisted in the latter to the deck, dumped into a chute, finally to work out of the bottom of a bunker into the stokehold and be thrown under the boilers.
A man can make the descent from the deck through an empty bunker to the stokehold without great discomfort, but would hardly survive being shut up in the former for long with the coal.
The footing on the grilled steel plates of the deck is firm and sure, and, as I have said, there is less motion in the stokehold than in any other part of the ship.
Besides the risk of torpedoes and shells there is ever the danger of the boilers giving way under the pressure of steam, with the inevitable result--a horrible death in a pitch-black stokehold filled with scalding steam.
The overworked engine-room and stokehold staffs were at last at liberty to "stand easy".
The stokehold ventilators hummed: in front of the six fire-doors two wild figures, stripped to the waist, staggered and stooped, wrestling with two shovels.
Then the noise ceased suddenly, and the second engineer appeared, emerging out of the stokeholdstreaked with grime and soaking wet like a chimney-sweep coming out of a well.
You've got to hurry up," shouted Mr. Rout, as soon as he saw Jukes appear in the stokehold doorway.
In the stokehold the plump donkeyman toiled with his shovel mutely, as if his tongue had been cut out; but the second was carrying on like a noisy, undaunted maniac, who had preserved his skill in the art of stoking under a marine boiler.
Some of them fled into the bunker, and shut the door behind them with the aid of a stoker, who remained in the stokehold and found a means of saving himself another way.
Just before twelve o'clock a steam-pipe burst in the stokehold of the Suvaroff.
In order to further encourage the men in the stokehold I called down to them from time to time through the voice-pipe the distance between us.
A fireman breaks the deck silence as he hoists two firebars up from the for'ard stokehold and carries them aft.
See the young pagan lounging round by the stokehold door.
Half an hour after the collision the water-tight doors from the engine room to the stokehold were opened as far forward as they could be to No.
The men remained in that stokehold till ordered on deck.
The stokehold of the Olive Branch, and then its engine-room, seemed to have sapped whatever intelligence he might once have possessed.
The doors leading to the stokehold were standing open, and they could see that the floors there too were flooded, though the water had not reached the level of the fire-bars.
Sometimes the hollow channel-seas that buried the plunging forecastle filled the decks and icy cataracts came down the stokehold gratings.
Engine-room doors jambed, but I found the stokehold grating and got some way down the ladder.
A door in the bulkhead was open, and now and then a blaze from the stokehold lighted the engine-room.
Dawn was just breaking as a sudden rush of steam through the engine-room fidley, followed by the slowing down of the engines, announced the disconcerting fact that the water had put out the stokehold fires.
Stoking is an art: it requires more than merely piling fuel into the furnaces; but there was no lack of capability on the part of the "Saraband's" stokehold staff.
Up through the small awkward engine-room stokehold hatchways came the "black squad," not one man of whom had stirred from his post until ordered to do so.
He could not compel the engine-room staff to work; so some of his own men were sent to the stokehold and engine-room under the charge of an experienced engine-room artificer.
When the twenty South Africans had left the stokehold the relieving gang was set to work.
In consideration for their voluntary labours all men who had been in the stokehold were excused drills and parades for the rest of the day.
The steam had been raised from the auxiliary engines, and the pumps were continuously ejecting water that made its way from the flooded stokehold to the adjoining compartments.
In the stokehold the thermometer registered 130 degrees Fahrenheit, and the white and brown torsos that strained under the trembling dials were black with the sooty sweat of their effort and red with the pitiless glare from the grates.
From the stokehold came the occasional clink of a shovel or the hollow clang of a fire-door flung to.
The sweat ran off us in streams as we stood there in the light of a couple of slush-lamps flaring in the draught from the stokehold door.
She says: "The fire having been dealt with it was found a mat kept the stokehold dry.
As soon as the pirate seamen were secured under hatches Cardyke posted a strong guard over the engine-room and stokehold ladders.
Sketch showing how the "forced draught" is produced in a stokehold and how it affects the furnaces.
They found that the Chinese captain had opened all his flooding valves and under-water openings, and that the engine-room and stokehold were half-full of water.
Fresh from the overheated stokehold and engine-room the survivors of the "Black Squad" found themselves faced with the immediate prospect of involuntary immersion in the chill waters of the North Sea.
This prolonged trial revealed that the stokehold was not sufficiently ventilated and more deck openings were required.
Hatches to give air to the stokehold were located amidships.
I'll see the stonemason gets packed off to sea again in a stokehold before he has a chance of stirring up the mud ashore.
They were joined by the stokehold gangs, and they made at once for the boats, overpowering any officer who happened to come between them and their desires.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stokehold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
