berth-deck

Undismayed by this prospect, they continued stanch in their contumacy, and presently an armed cutter, "painted a 'pirate black,' its crew a dark, grim-looking set, and the officers uncommonly fierce-looking little Frenchmen," conveyed them on board the frigate, where they were duly handcuffed, and secured by the ankle to a great iron bar bolted down to the berth-deck.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

The Carpenter will see that the hatches on the deck next above the berth-deck or orlop are properly covered with gratings and tarpaulins, and that the air-ports are closed and secured.

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

At noon, or eight bells, as they say on shipboard, the bugles sound the dinner call, and from all parts of the ship the boys tumble down the hatchways to the berth-deck, where is a long row of short tables swung from the ceiling, and where the young sailors eat the bountiful dinner provided for them as only healthy, hearty boys can eat.

Harper's Young People, February 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

Landsmen, whose ideas of a sailor's sleeping-place are taken from the snow-white hammocks and exquisitely clean berth-deck of a man of war, or from the rough, but substantial comfort of a well-appointed merchantman, can form no conception of the surpassing and countless abominations of a

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various

On spar-decks they are to be kept under the break of the poop and the topgallant forecastle, and, in vessels having neither poop nor topgallant forecastle, between the beams on the berth-deck.

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

The PAYMASTER'S station will be in the ward-room and on the berth-deck, in charge of the money, books and stores belonging to his

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

These were not very efficient and there were only two of them, so very little relief was given to the overcrowded berth-deck.

History of the Gatling Gun Detachment John Henry Parker

During an action, such of the Carpenter's crew as are stationed in the wings, or on the orlop, in line-of-battle ships, or on the berth-deck in other vessels, will be constantly on the look-out for shot-holes.

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

It was steered on this berth-deck when fully lowered.

Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War James Allan

He was berth-deck cook of a gunboat, by his own report, and "Jack o 'the Dust" in a river monitor up "China way."

Isle o' Dreams Frederick Ferdinand Moore 1930