The stokersand furnaces are hid from view, and the cabins appear to be floating on one huge cotton bale.
The stokers were kept hard at work making the great fires roar, until the steam-gauge showed the highest pressure the boilers could bear.
Down in the boiler-room the stokers were throwing coal upon the roaring fires; and in the engine-room the engineer stood with his hand on the throttle, waiting for the signal to get under way.
It must be such as can be easily understood by stokers or firemen of average intelligence, so that the continuous working of the plant may not be disorganized by change of workmen.
Soon after leaving port the captain of the ship notified me that his stokers and engineers were insubordinate and drunken, due, he thought, to liquor which my men had given them.
The stokers and engineers were sullen and half mutinous, so I sent a detail of my men down to watch them and see that they did their work under the orders of the chief engineer; and we reduced them to obedience in short order.
There was something strangely cheering in his story of how, when there was a following simoon blowing across the brassy surface of the Red Sea, the Lascar stokers used to go mad with the heat and jump overboard in their delirium.
Straight down the one-in-three incline from the port to the starboard bunkers lolloped the Juggernaut, dashing the protesting anatomies of the stokers to left and right as it went.
He was the Gunnery Lieutenant, the chap said, and had been driving up stokers at the point of his revolver to serve a gun whose crew had been knocked out when he was killed.
There was a big crash, just like when a big lump of sea hits you, only worse, and all the stokers and me (I was a petty officer then) was knocked flat.
No sooner was our boarding officer over her side than a mob of Chinese stokers crowded about him shouting in 'pidgin' English that 'puff-puff boat gottee biggee holee.
After ten minutes' wait, two stokers were sent on deck, both suffering from severe scalds.
One building there was called the grand hotel, and it was frequented by all ranks, from the warrant officers and sergeant of marines down to the stokers and ship's boys.
With one or two exceptions, the remaining stokers were either Irishmen or Germans, the latter having an aptitude for becoming stokers and sugar bakers, avocations which require the power of enduring heat.
Another was put up for the petty officers, the stokers had one for themselves, and the officers' servants one.
Of course the stoke-hold was instantly filled with high-pressure steam, and before the stokers could escape, three of them were scalded to death.
No lights were allowed—not even a cigar; the engine-room hatchways were covered with tarpaulins, at the risk of suffocating the unfortunate engineers and stokers in the almost insufferable atmosphere below.
He waved to the volunteers, and at once went to a group of stokers and greasers near by.
But for a few stokers who keep steam in two of the boilers, and the third engineer, the place is quite empty.
But soon all was quiet, save for a low grating sound which now and again reached his ear, and told him that the stokers were at work.
Just within the door stood one of the stokers clutching the ironwork, and looking upon the scene as if in a dream.
That is where the coal is kept," said the engineer, carelessly; "and on the other side the stokers sleep.
The stokers are in water up to their shoulders before the voice of the chief engineer is heard: "Save yourselves, my men, if you can!
Sailors were hurrying to and fro, and Rondic learned from one of them that the chief engineer of the Cydnus was in a very bad humor because he had not his full number of stokerson board.
It would also require greater vigilance on the part of the stokers than can generally be obtained in the circumstances in which they work.
It requires the constant attention of the stokers (such is the name given to those who feed the furnaces).
Hardly a day passed that the stokers and drivers were not made targets of by snipers among the kopjes, and occasionally a train was entirely destroyed.
Only in those distant transports, where the grimy stokers shoveled and strove, were there hopes for the safety of Natal and the honour of the Empire.
I knew that turpentine yarn was a lie, but I wanted to be sure, so I thought I'd ask one of the stokers who had come up for a little air.
You and your friend will guard the aft companion-way, and help the Chief Engineer take care of the stokers and the steerage.
Finally, when things seemed at their darkest, he heard there was a demand for stokers on the Blue Star Line.
The two stokers had crawled out of the inferno to steal a breath of fresh air.
So far, the stokers had not noticed the visitors' presence, but Mr. Fitzhugh's exclamation made them look up.
On their grimy faces the two stokers felt drops of rain.
It was the hardest kind of labor known to man, but, like the ancient stoics, the stokers gave no sign of their suffering.
Stokers are all troublesome as a class, but this Armitage fellow is quite unmanageable.
Neville, a young man, was unique in that most undemocratic institution, a ship's crew, for he apparently considered the stokers under him as human beings.
He and his fellow-stokers took up immediately the work of the men they had relieved, and during the first hours of their watch fired the boilers with no more difficulty than is usual in heavy weather.
Larry was made the coal-passer of that watch, and began at once the back-breaking task of shoveling fuel from the bunkers to the floor outside, ready for the stokers to heave into the boilers.
As the fagged stokers bent before the boilers, the hot water, dripping from the breeching, washed scalding channels through the coal-dust down their bare backs.
To the Navy, who raided them when it needed seamen or stokers for its ships, they were "dry-land sailors.
When they saw that their second attempt had failed the stokers uttered a yell of rage.
They now ate with the ship's officers, the stokers and oilers having a mess-room by themselves.
The new stokers took their evening trick, each determined to hold up his end of the work with the rest of the men.
Being convinced that the stokers are wholly to blame, I shall fine each of them a day's pay.
With one accord the stokersthrust their shovels into the coal pile.
For the moment the stokers were so amazed at the exhibition of strength and skill on the part of Steve Rush that they could do no more than gape and gaze.
The critical stage had been passed for the moment, but Rush knew that sooner or later there would be a clash of some sort, and he knew, too, that when it did come the tough stokers would side with their own companion.
The stokers sent the next black volley straight out from their hips, which should have reached the mark had the boys adopted their former tactics.
Stokers and Pokers, by the author of “Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau.
One of the most ingenious stokers is the De Brouwer, shown at work in Fig.
In the Red Sea the thermometer sometimes rises to 170° Fahrenheit or more, and the poor stokers have a very bad time of it.
Thereupon the stokers of the Markgraf left the ship and went ashore.
The stokers broke into the provision-rooms and helped themselves.
When the arrest of the mutinous stokers became known aboard their battleship there was an outburst of indignation.
The stokers were joined by members of other ships' crews ashore at the time, and a meeting was held.
It passed through the Daenische Strasse and Brunswigerstrasse toward Feldstrasse, in which was situated the military prison where the Markgraf stokers were confined.
When the stokers returned to the Markgraf they found her guarded by marines and they were not permitted to come aboard.
It was the stokers of the Markgraf at Kiel who set rolling the stone which became the avalanche of revolution.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stokers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
