quarterdecks

But thanks to the outlawing of DDT and other state and federal protective measures, the bird's population has rebounded and today can be found in Louisiana on piers and quarterdecks as well as merely on quarters.

Jim Noles: Hawaii's New Quarter is More than Just Chump Change 2008

Jones was used to sullen quarterdecks, but the one he mounted aboard the Russian ship of the line was openly defiant.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

On the big ships, bands played and sailors mobbed sacrosanct quarterdecks.

Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

Jones was used to sullen quarterdecks, but the one he mounted aboard the Russian ship of the line was openly defiant.

John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

The decks sported a shambles of wooden huts and jutting penthouses with a forest of iron chimneys kinked at all angles; more of these stood atop quarterdecks, forecastles and roundhouses.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

The decks sported a shambles of wooden huts and jutting penthouses with a forest of iron chimneys kinked at all angles; more of these stood atop quarterdecks, forecastles and roundhouses.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

Many of the American privateers absolutely bristled with guns—not only with captured cannon but with musketry on their quarterdecks and tops—so that “in action,” wrote one mariner of his own vessel, the Fair American, “she was a complete flame of fire.”

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

Many of the American privateers absolutely bristled with guns—not only with captured cannon but with musketry on their quarterdecks and tops—so that “in action,” wrote one mariner of his own vessel, the Fair American, “she was a complete flame of fire.”

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

Beyond that chaos Sharpe could see a red horror on the poop - and quarterdecks where the blast of his carronade had taken a terrible toll among Ardiles's men.

Sharpe's Devil Cornwell, Bernard 1992

The captains commanded on their quarterdecks; the boatswains in the forecastle; the gunners attended to the magazines, and the carpenters with their plug-shots, put themselves in readiness with high-wrought energy, nor were the seamen and marines a whit behind hand in entering on their several duties.

Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People Marmaduke Park