forehatch

We went up through the forehatch and sat upon the bitts for a few minutes, smoking a cigarette.

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In the meanwhile, Grimes and the other soldier had loosed themselves from their bonds, and, encouraged by the firing, which seemed to them a sign that all was not yet lost, made shift to force up the forehatch.

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Balavere cursed, strode to the forehatch, and absently yelled into it.

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Native interest seemed to be at last assuaged, for not a soul was visible on the bank (I cannot call it a quay); but the top of a black sou'wester with a feather of smoke curling round it showed above the forehatch of the Kormoran.

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Then my eye fell on a little heap of small arms that had been thrown down near the forehatch.

The Black Buccaneer 1934

Soon I had two of the enemy backed up to the forehatch, and before their worryin 'eyes I flourishes my capstan-bar.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

Our spirits were soon dashed, when the old carpenter, one of the coolest and bravest men in the ship, rose through the forehatch pale as a ghost, with his white hairs streaming out in the wind.

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The galley, the pig-sty, the hen-coop, and a large sheep-pen which had been built upon the forehatch, were all gone, in the twinkling of an eye—leaving the deck as clean as a chin new-reaped—and not a stick left, to show where they had stood.

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On the same day the ship's butcher, Monk, “a man much esteemed in the ship,” fell down the forehatch, and died the following day from the injury received.

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"He walked forward and stood leaning over the forehatch, seeming to listen." ...

Poison Island Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903