after-hatch

They pried up the after-hatch cover, and looked down at the heaving water below.

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

As we emerged from the galley, I noticed that the after-hatch was half open.

The Mutineers Charles Boardman Hawes

As we all scrambled up the after-hatch, the ship's corporal, Brown, who had helped me to sling my hammock again after I had been cut down the first night I was on board, a very decent man altogether, stopped

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

The men on watch were grouped about the waist, sitting on the combings of the after-hatch, or walking fore and aft in the gangways to keep the blood stirring.

Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

The scuppers were plugged, and soon the waist of the ship, about forty feet wide and sixty long, looked like a miniature lake with the after-hatch rising like a snow-white island from the centre, and upon which a miniature surf broke as the water swashed and swirled with each roll of the ship.

Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

The Scorpion waved to the gang, and they arranged themselves around the pile of bales that stuck out through the after-hatch.

Stories by English Authors: the Sea Various

When the helm goes over suddenly, too, and the ship slaps her stern into the heart of an advancing wave, a miniature Niagara comes pouring down the after-hatch, unless it happens to be shut.

Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories 1925

It's a miracle that Monygham, standing on the after-hatch with the rope already round his neck, escaped being riddled through and through like a sieve.

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

I had no sooner guessed the meaning of this -- that the ruffians were fastening down the hatches on their prisoners -- than one of them, at the far end of the ship, either fetched or found a lantern, lit it, and stood it on the after-hatch.

Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Like me he was bare to the waist, but around his loins he wore a belt scaled with silver sequins, glimmering against the ray of the lantern on the after-hatch, and maybe also in the first weak light of the approaching dawn ....

Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903