Two POWs rescued earlier from the beach convinced him to start the POW rescue operations that day . " That evening, for the first time since weather decks.
22.
Prior to this most smokers were required to go to the weather decks to smoke, since the ladies could not abide the vulgar and vicious habit of smoking.
23.
Three sailors were killed, and the forward well deck was seriously damaged, the weather deck curling back towards the superstructure and the port hull blown open to the sea.
24.
We were moved to the weather deck and transferred from there by ladder onto a boat, and transferred from that boat to a pilot boat and brought into the harbor.
25.
Both the lower deck and the'tweendeck could accommodate eight barges, two side-by-side, while the longer weather deck had enough space for ten barges, each capable of carrying 1, 070 tons of cargo.
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With water now filling the ship, the crew were crammed onto the weather decks and bowsprit; on Tuesday morning lots were drawn to decide who could use the ship's longboat to get to safety.
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It is typically found below the weather deck in the stern of the vessel and is accessed through a hatch if accessed from the main deck or a doorway if accessed from below decks.
28.
A new steelwork lower deck of contemporary design incorporating an amphitheatre feature was installed in the main hold while a glass-encased lift installed within the ship terminates in a new steel-and-glass housing structure on the weather deck.
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The gun system has a combination of electrical and hydraulic components and the full system penetrates up to three deck levels below the weather deck; deep magazine, gun control room and power room, gunbay and the gunhouse.
30.
Much of the confusion with respect to the " Keying " may come from reported bow and stern heights above the waterline that may have been for the tops of'wings'and'poop', not of the weather deck at bow and stern.
