stern davit

The sailors had run aft to the tender hanging in the stern davits.

Jericho lowered the boat that hung from the stern davits; Harry stepped into it, then beckoned the giant to join him.

Most skipjacks were eventually modified with stern davits to hold a dinghy or pushboat to allow motorized travel as permitted by law.

I hoisted the dinghy up by the stern davits and made it fast, as, under dead slow speed, Arthur took us out through the wide entrance of Hurricane Pass.

When the heavy anchors were down and the Caroline had shifted to the tide's turn, he assisted the Señora and Marta into the boat swung on the stern davits.

There was a tiny boat already hanging from the stern davits of the cabin cruiser, so the boat Burbank and Hawkeye arrived in was fastened to the Cayuga's stern with a towline.

Jack had his eye fixed on the man, a painter who had leaned out just too far, and saw that he was swimming: he also saw the Merlin port her helm and drop the boat from her stern davits and he rebuttoned the coat he had been about to fling off.

Mitchell had her now: he had added iron stern davits and a quarterdeck carronade on each side, but he had hardly altered her paintwork at all, the true Nelson chequer; and she still had that odd, fetching, slightly hesitant second lift before she shouldered a heavy sea down her side. '