How To Use Stokehold In A Sentence
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As shown below, the stokehold vents provided entry for the massive airflow demanded by the boiler fires.
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Forced draught is produced by twelve 5 ft. 6 in. fans, three being stationed in each stokehold.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
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We are making for the engine room and stokehold, Mr Vicars, under the guide of a ship's engineer.
ANTI-ICE
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How could she overlook treatment which would have caused comment in the stokehold of a cattle ship?
The Clicking of Cuthbert
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The stokeholds were enclosed, and steam driven fans were used to force air into the stokeholds.
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But Elspeth ... and to haunt me in that stinking stokehold came the appalling question: suppose it was my skin or hers - would I turn tail then?
Flashman's Lady
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There are coal bunkers each side of the stokehold and each of these holds 17 tons of steaming coal.
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From which you may gather that a busy day among the Borneo pirates had quite dissipated the conscientious lunacy which had temporarily come over me in the stokehold the previous night.
Flashman's Lady
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John reports the stokehold was manned by 2 stokers each watch on the 4 hours on, 8 hours off system.
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Mr. Thornycroft has for some years used the locomotive form of boiler for his steam launches, working them under an air pressure -- produced by a fan discharging into a close stokehold -- of from 1 in. to 6 in. of water, as may be required.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
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Yarrow's patent water tight ash pans are fitted to each boiler, to prevent the fire being extinguished by a sudden influx of water into the stokehold.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887
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The shells … bored their way even to the stokehold.
Castles of Steel
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The stokehold was one of three aboard the Prince Albert; there was a stokehold to serve each axle, and each hold contained two boilers.
ANTI-ICE
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The firemen and other engine room and stokehold workers are located in rooms above the machinery with separate entrances and exits to and from their work.
Marvels of Modern Science
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So were all hands on board, when the news spread through the ship; and, on our reaching Mombassa late in the afternoon of the same day, steaming fifteen knots all the way, pretty nearly our full speed when the stokehold was not ` closed up, 'we found the _Merlin_ there before us, as the man on deck had told Larry and me in the morning.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy
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There was some difficulty in recruiting a sufficient number of engineer officers, and of stokers who could manage the novel tubular boilers of the new battleships, and the fleet was undoubtedly handicapped by the inexperience of its engine-room and stokehold staff.
Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima
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The stokehold vent cover aft of the funnel is also completely gone, with no evidence pointing to any remains.
