chain locker

I was out of the chain locker when they got there."

The forward corridor led to a large chain locker.

A small pipe placed at the bow leads to the anchor chain locker.

Damage control parties lay forward to the chain locker."

"The chain locker at the ship's bow: that is where they are confined.

Zina had said "fish hold", but what she must have meant was the chain locker next to the hold.

Fun for him, too--maybe dead already in the chain locker or the double bottom.

He watched Nicko go to the chain locker and come back with a marlin spike.

What was the chain locker?

Aft of the chain locker was a hold containing two 500-fathom coils of 2-inch manila.

Its chain rattled massively after it, links whipping through the chain locker where the soldier was.

At the very front were the chain lockers for the huge anchor chains and ballast tanks to adjust the ship's trim.

"Minor fires in some stored paint abaft the chain locker, but fire parties have those in hand.

From the bows, she had a forecastle where a water-closet stood starkly between the chain locker and the cooking galley.

The rattling ceased as abruptly as it had begun, the fastening doubtless torn from the floor of the chain locker.

The bow of the ship became hazy from the cloud of dust and rust that burst from the chain locker.

Obediently I hauled on the chain, the metallic racket loud in the stillness as it fell through my hands into the little chain locker.

On 6 December 1948, while the ship was operating in heavy pack ice, a shifting floe sprung a leak in her port chain locker.

Intensive would be a poor word to describe that search; every square foot between the chain locker and steering compartment was searched and searched again.

Shortly after, the captain closes the hatch to the chain locker with Louie inside, and Louie is crushed to death by the chain.

Ocean Ranger lay at anchor east of Newfoundland on 15 February 1982 when the port bow chain locker and upper hull flooded during a storm.

'Cook and Darwin, their small ships were filled with botanical specimens in the holds, bulbs in the chain lockers, breadfruit trees on deck.

On that day, a sanitary tank which collected runoff from the torpedo room, anchor chain locker, and anchor engine room was scheduled for a routine cleaning.

So I've got two backups in the belowships chain locker, as well as a machine that can build another from scratch if we feed it enough molybdenum.

Abou Sinn stood over the chain where it emerged through the fairlead of the chain locker with the four-pound hammer ready.