Word: bulkheads
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...January I went down to the cellar as usual. I started back in horror against the bulkhead, for the cursed white flood was rising higher. The tide of pamphlets had seemed to run in fortnightly or monthly waves. By keeping the block of stores at 95 degrees throughout the fall, I had been able to hold the paper flood in check, but what was I to do when the paper spring tides were upon...
...arrived in the nick of time, for the white flood had seeped up through the bulkhead and cellar windows, and Mount Auburn Street was snowy with the stuff. For days afterward the sewers were clogged, but this quality of the printed matter had its good side as well. The city officials said that none of the dirt from Fort Hill had packed so solidly and heavily as each successive load of Lampoon...
...descended into the gruesome, barnacled grotto of the dead, and as they fumbled through the rusty, sea-fouled compartments, scenes of the death struggles were revealed. Men had stuck to their posts. Inside the gash where the Rome had bitten, pinned between the bent steel plates and the engineroom bulkhead, was the body of a seaman. One arm was stretched out in an effort to grasp the lever which would have closed an emergency valve and perhaps have saved the lives of some of his fellows...
...seas; not for him the salty terror of Winslow Homer's rockbound coast; Reuterdahl never played ghost with John Masefield's Wanderer; Reuterdahl went with natty-suited officers of the U. S. N. Yet, as a craftsman he was master of color. He could brighten the bulkhead of an officer's messroom. He could color the Missouri Capitol with brilliant sea-script proclaiming, "We [the Navy] Are Ready Now." The Naval Academy received ten of his paintings as the gift of the late George von L. Meyer. With more delicate panels he made gay the steam yacht...
...inch, outer planking 5-8 inch; copper-fastened and riveted through timbers; garboards and upper strake of white oak; stern and planksheer of selected teak; decks laid in narrow strips of white pine; coaming for cockpit of quartered oak. In the after end of the forward cockpit is a bulkhead, forward of the boller bulkhead, in which is placed the steering wheel, this space is the full width of the boat and is devoted to the steersman, so that there is no obstruction. Both cockpits are finished in white ash. The seats are slatted and so arranged that they...