boat davit

Although the boat davit brought up by the Koraagasuggests there may be a further wreck in deeper water.

A group of men were crowding about a boat davit, frantically trying to lower a lifeboat.

The boat davits were swung out as they always are in action, and now a crew was lowering the whaleboat.

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It included a three story dwelling, a veranda with boat davits, and a circular parapet.

Antennas were down, and a boat davit and both depth-charge racks were buckled.

Some of these were outfitted with heavy boat davits and other arrangements to enable them to handle landing craft for amphibious assault operations.

The boat davits were hand-cranked, while the falls were fair-led to the aft towing capstan.

Hydraulic boat davits were installed, and the motor surf boat was replaced by a rigid hull inflatable (RHI).

To their left was a small section of still-intact deck railing and the remnants of a boat davit, another mute, forlorn reminder of the Titanic's fatal inadequacies.

Tombstone saw fragments, gun mounts, boat davits, pieces of radar antennae and funnel spinning wildly through the air, but gun and missile fire from the big ship continued almost unabated.

On that day, a crewmate, Apprentice D'Orsay, fell from the rigging of the Sabines mizzen-topmast into the water, striking the lower rigging and a boat davit on his way down.

Noa returned to Mayport on 6 February for modifications to her boat davits and briefings in preparation for the recovery of America's first astronaut to orbit the Earth and his space capsule.

The shipboard Marine contingent divided into smaller details, some manning the vessel's machine guns fore and aft, others joining working parties who began clearing the wreckage from the spy ship's deck and cutting away the ruin of her boat davits and mast.

However, an inspection of the ship conducted from 1 October to 10 October 1906 found that the action of the sea was driving her further ashore and bending and warping her hull so that her seams were beginning to open, her deck planking was coming apart, and her boat davits had collapsed.