10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STOKEHOLD»
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stokehold in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Titanic Voices: 63 Survivors Tell Their Extraordinary ...
You got out into the stokehold there, I suppose? Yes. After that I came up right up
to the bunker door, and then came into the stokehold. Is that higher up, ata higher
level? out of Yes. And you climbed that, did you?Yes. And you got into the ...
A second gunboat, the ' Alert,' with ' closed stokehold' fittings, but in other
respects exactly similar to the 'Torch,' was built at the same time, and this has
enabled comparative tests of long duration to be carried out. These tests have
shown no ...
Richard Sennett, Henry Oram, 2010
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Ethel Wilson: Stories, Essays, and Letters
... I assure you that your view from the bridge (which I also enjoy enormously
when I am there) differs from the view in the stokehold where the stoking goes on.
I should like to talk, a little, from the stokehold. Let us consider one childishly
simple ...
4
The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher: Voices from ...
She took them out of there and up to the steam bath above the Prince's
apartments, hid them in the stokehold, and piled logs in front of them. When the
searchers reached the steam bath and the stokehold, they saw the logs piled up
like that ...
5
British Destroyers 1892-1918
Below the funnels were the boilers and stokehold and behind these were the
boats and davits. Aft of the stokehold were the engines. Early boats were fitted
with two triple-expansion units, in most cases designed and built by the same
yard as ...
With hands clasped behind his back he casually explored the stokehold. Each
boiler was inspected in turn by the simple tapping of a knuckle against an
occasional instrument dial. This air of confidence was for the firemen's benefit
though ...
Francis Young, Kerr, Francis Kerr Young, 2006
7
Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill, 2-Volume Set
Second Engineer the Second engineer is “a husky, fine-looking man of thirty-five
or so” (2:133). in scene 2, he appears on the promenade deck to escort Mildred
Douglas down to the stokehold. He warns her that the soot in the stokehold will ...
It was a happy inspiration which prompted metovolunteer to go down andstanda
partof his watch withhim in the stokehold, for onceon hisown “dung hill,”
hisrestraint fell awayfrom him and he spoke easily and naturally ofthe things
which had ...
Afourhour watchinthe stokehold of suchaship wasakin to a brief sojourn in Hell
itself: fourhoursspent inthe service ofabankof insatiable furnaces that threatened
to fryhim alive every timetheir heavy iron doors clanged open. Stripped tothe
waist ...
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The Fur-Trade Fleet: Shipwrecks of the Hudson's Bay Company
To keep water away from the fires on Bayeskimo, the watertight door to the
stokehold was closed. The chief and second engineers, plus a donkeyman, kept
the pumps going at full speed, but they could not keep ahead of the rising water.
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STOKEHOLD»
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This Week In History: 1938 - CP Rail Pier fire
The 'shanghaied' crew labored in the stokehold while flames rapidly grew closer to the ship. “At 1:50 p.m. Captain Tommy finally gave the signal to cast off the ... «Vancouver Sun, Jul 15»
Inside the Marama hospital ship
However Maheno's William Denny-built steam turbines had turned out to be less efficient than anticipated and her stokehold was a hell. When the Union ... «Stuff.co.nz, Apr 15»
The sinking of the Lusitania claimed the life of a Barnoldswick woman
The torpedoes entered the forward stokehold, and the engines were paralysed by the breathtaking of the main steam pipe. "The vessel was steaming at 18 knots ... «Craven Herald, Mar 15»
Scotland on a vintage steamship
We picked up shovels and wheelbarrows, and the big black lumps thundered into the stokehold. By the time we had loaded four and a half tons all my ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 14»
On this Day 1889: The Sinking of the old WALMER CASTLE and …
Two Bengalese firemen were drowned as water filled the engine room and stokehold. A gash of some fifteen feet was made by the liner below and above the ... «Shipping Times, Dec 12»
Look back: The SS City of Milwaukee
There are 20 in the engine room and stokehold crew, bringing the total manning the ship to 46. Following inspection yesterday, the City of Milwaukee backed ... «Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com, Jan 12»
One Crewman died when fire destroyed liner at Ketchikan Dock in …
"He was an engine room day man and had been sent forward to the stokehold to help the Fireman (Marshall)," Hughes said. "He liked to crouch down and watch ... «SitNews, Sep 10»
