How To Use gun deck In A Sentence
- At the time, on the gun decks of the Indomitable, the general estimate of his nature and its unconscious simplicity eventually found rude utterance from another foretopman, one of his own watch, gifted, as some sailors are, with an artless poetic temperament; the tarry hands made some lines which after circulating among the shipboard crew for a while, finally got rudely printed at Portsmouth as a ballad. Billy Budd
- She struck the frigate, buckling the port 30 mm gun deck, crushing the sea-boat sponsons and damaging the bridge wing.
- She sighed irritably when no one presented either of these, but even as she did, Jacqueline's head bobbed up from the gun deck.
- It consists of a basement, gun deck and large observation area, giving you ample time to heat up the boiling oil after spying unwelcome visitors. Times, Sunday Times
- Between these and the forecastle was the between-decks, as high as the gun deck of a frigate; being six feet and a half, under the beams. Chapter XXII. Life on Shore-The Alert
- She struck the frigate, buckling the port 30 mm gun deck, crushing the sea-boat sponsons and damaging the bridge wing.
- What had once been luxuries in the Wardroom of H. M. S. Victory had become standard items of health and hygiene to the sailors on the gun decks of H. M. S. Warrior after 1860.
- The last formed the main gun deck, while other cannon were mounted on the lower, semicircular lunettes (outer towers) set around the tower's exterior.
- A day or two afterwards, chancing in the evening promenade on a gun deck to pass Billy, he offered a flying word of good-fellowship, as it were, which by its unexpectedness, and equivocalness under the circumstances so embarrassed Billy that he knew not how to respond to it, and let it go unnoticed. Billy Budd
- Though our new-made foretopman was well received in the top and on the gun decks, hardly here was he that cynosure he had previously been among those minor ship's companies of the merchant marine, with which companies only had he hitherto consorted. Billy Budd
