deckload

Eighty tons of freight, including deckload, she carried, and in all democracy Captain Jorgensen, the cook, and the two other sailors, loaded and unloaded her at all hours, and sailed her night and day on all times and tides, one man steering while three slept and recuperated.

CHAPTER XVI 2010

We launched the equivalent of a deckload strike — about thirty airplanes, with most of the fighters doubling as bombers.

On Yankee Station Nichols, Tillman 1988

Russ eagerly asked what "jettisoned" meant, and the man explained that the crew had pushed overboard all the deckload of lumber.

Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's Laura Lee Hope

Japan; the outbound freighter, laden to the gunwales and carrying a deckload of lumber, was destined for Prince William Sound.

The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson

Eighty tons of freight, including deckload, she carried, and in all democracy Captain Jorgensen, the cook, and the two other sailors, loaded and unloaded her at all hours, and sailed her night and day on all times and tides, one man steering while three slept and recuperated.

Chapter 16 1917

It was the ship's cat coming across the deckload toward him, in his yellow eyes a singularly pleased expression and in his mouth a singularly large rat.

Cappy Ricks Retires 1918

It was Mr. MacLean, their quondam second mate, cast back on the deckload of the Retriever by the resurgent tide of maritime misfortune.

Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley 1918

The deckload, double-lashed, held, although the deckhouse groaned and twisted until Matt Peasley regretted the impulse that had impelled him to do this foolish thing for the sake of satisfying a grudge.

Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley 1918

Matt made the run down in sixty-six days, a smart passage, waited a week in Manila Bay before he could secure a berth and commence discharging, discharged in a week, loaded a cargo of hemp, with a deckload of hardwood logs, and was ready for the return trip to San Francisco on April twenty-fourth, on which day he towed out past Corregidor.

Cappy Ricks Retires 1918

The cook left the forward deckhouse and came aft over the deckload.

Cappy Ricks Retires 1918