deckhead

This was the first time I had seen her face and not even the harsh glare of the deckhead light could mar the flawless beauty of its perfect oval, the olive complexion, the patrician little nose, the plaited coils of hair, lustrous and silky, black as a raven's wing.

The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985

Sinclair pointed to a jagged hole in the bulkhead about six feet above deck level, then indicated the scarred and pock-marked deckhead.

San Andreas MacLean, Alistair 1984

Bulkheads and deckhead had been heavily starred and pock-marked by shrapnel from the exploding shell.

San Andreas MacLean, Alistair 1984

Persian or Afghanistan, with a heavy gleaming weave that gave a shimmering shot-silk effect with every little movement of the Shangri-la, they stretched all the way from deckhead to deck.

When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

Beyond the now stooping diver was another light suspended from the deckhead.

When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

The searchlight control was on the wheelhouse deckhead.

When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

Swanson touched a switch and a loud-speaker in the deckhead crackled.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

The whole control room was twice the size of any I'd ever seen in a conventional submarine but, even so, every square inch of bulkhead space seemed to be taken up by one type or another of highly complicated looking machines or instrument banks: even the deckhead was almost invisible, lost to sight above thickly twisted festoons of wires, cables and pipes of a score of different kinds.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

From deck to deckhead, the bulkhead was covered with them.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

The Water level now extended from about thirty inches up on the collision bulkhead to the for'ard deckhead of the torpedo room.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963