bow door

The ship put to sea with its bow doors open.

She closed her bow doors at 00:05 on 8 July 1944.

Finally the bow doors were sealed, as they would no longer be needed.

"Bow doors are open by hand, Captain," the weapons officer announced.

Waiting to close bow doors before leaving port eats into profits.

Blame for that accident was placed on personnel who failed to close bow doors.

The impact popped the bow door open, allowing a rush of sea water into the car deck.

He said there was some evidence that the bow door was wide open or missing by the time the ship went down.

It was caused by a crew member forgetting to close the bow doors of the ferry.

The vessel had 463 passengers and crew on board when it left the port with its bow doors still open.

An investigation blamed "an inrush of water through open bow doors" as the cause.

This reduced the clearance between the bow doors and water line to 1.5 metres.

Investigators ruled that the most likely cause of that accident was an open bow door.

Suspicion focuses around a ballast problem combined with bow doors that were left open.

The bottom of the ferry's vehicle-loading bow doors are normally nine feet above the water level.

And he gave the orders for the ramp to be raised and the bow doors shut.

She has been shortened in length and bow doors added, 2 new main engines (Cats).

It was therefore believed that leaving the bow doors open alone should not have caused the ship to capsize.

It was designed to be beached with its bow doors open, offering ease of unloading.

Twice the size of earlier ships, it can launch amphibious vehicles from its open bow doors.

A subsequent inquiry determined that the ships bow doors had been left open allowing water to get onto the car deck.

At this same moment the bow door opened and the blaze of sunlight revealed him sitting on the deck nursing his wounded arm.

He was quoted as saying that "although he is the pilot of the Bill, he has not got his bow doors open".

Upon completing this task some 40 minutes later, she lay to, ramp and bow doors secured, to await orders.

The bow doors opened, then with a clank and a crash, the ramp dropped on to the quay.