quarterdeck

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Examples of quarterdeck

  • She had outside cabins on both sides of the quarterdeck.

  • Instead, we have been treated to nothing more than an electioneering striptease on the quarterdeck.

  • Gone was all that bluff quarterdeck manner with which we have become so familiar.

  • Some of us know the old style of what we should call the blue-water admirals, with their quarterdeck manner, who would listen to no one.

  • I can imagine what would happen if certain people here had got heaved off the quarterdeck.

  • The reference in both cases is to seamen—men who go to sea; and there is no distinction in that word between the lower deck and the quarterdeck.

  • One mount was on each side of the lower flight deck and a pair were on the quarterdeck.

  • Four depth charge throwers and two rails are installed on the quarterdeck.

  • She was of three-island construction with a forecastle, bridge house, and quarterdeck, extending to the full width of a low-freeboard hull.

  • On the flush deck above she additionally carried six 12-pounder carronades (two forwards and four on the quarterdeck).

  • During combat, he was stationed on the quarterdeck, next to the captain.

  • The new engine could be controlled directly from the quarterdeck and responded instantly, rather than after a 30-or-more-second delay common with the original engine.

  • One mount each was on the former flying-off deck and the quarterdeck while the other four were mounted two per side.

  • Four were mounted on the sides of the flying-off deck and two on the quarterdeck.

  • Twenty 32-pounder carronades were mounted on the upper deck and a further six 18-pounder carronades were placed on the quarterdeck.

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