deadlights

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A brilliant eccentric with a morbid turn of mind, Kuroshima was known for shutting himself in his cabin, closing the deadlights on his porthole, stripping naked, and smoking continuously while burning incense as he worked around the clock.

Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006

A brilliant eccentric with a morbid turn of mind, Kuroshima was known for shutting himself in his cabin, closing the deadlights on his porthole, stripping naked, and smoking continuously while burning incense as he worked around the clock.

Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006

It was pitch black, for no lights were allowed after nine o-clock except in the roundhouse day cabins where deadlights could be fixed across the small portholes.

Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000

Someone had slammed the deadlights against the deckhouse windows and clamped them home — Knyvett must be expecting to ship some heavy seas.

Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

He made himself lie still; it was pitch dark in the deckhouse with the deadlights in, and, perhaps because of the cessation of ventilation, it was now overpoweringly hot despite the gale.

Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

The time was 7: 15 A.M. All the watertight doors, deadlights and scuttles had been securely closed before the torpedo struck the ship.

The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various

I was pretty sure that they had fixed me in the cabin, not only for the night, but until somebody passing in a boat would see me signalling from the tiny deadlights.

Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers W. Bertram Foster

They fell on the rough features of the old merchant mariner who owned the ship and who so largely controlled our fortunes, making him seem more irascible than ever, and faded out in the early morning light that came in through the deadlights.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

If it is after sunset and the ship is "darkened" the scuttles will all have their deadlights down, and the place will be very, what we may call "frowsty."

Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories 1925