Word: companionways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rail. Stentoriously Pa whispered to White House Secretary Bill Hassett: press conference immediately. The wharf slip was cranked up to deck level; the horde of sweating, shoving newsmen belched through a bottleneck of broad-shouldered Secret Service men and Maine State troopers, poured through a hatch, clattered down the companionway's 20 steps, found themselves, a little embarrassed, suddenly before the President...
...boat station was Starboard 5. ... Near this boat station there was a companionway which leads over No. 3 hatch, and it was here that the second torpedo had struck us. The boards covering this hatch had been blown off by the force of the explosion, and there was a deep yawning hole...
Those standing around the boats were either swept overboard or trapped between the two decks; those of us who were still on our feet struggled up the companionway and down on to the port deck...