accommodation ladder
Example Sentences
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The boat, which had run quickly alongside of the steamer near her bow, now lay beside the accommodation ladder which hung amidships.
From The Island Mystery by Birmingham, George A.
Somers directed the coxswain of the first cutter to pull in to the accommodation ladder of the steamer.
From Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck by Optic, Oliver
In less than ten minutes the boat had been swung out by means of a derrick, and was straining at her painter alongside the accommodation ladder.
From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
Peaks came alongside, and directed Clyde Blacklock to mount the accommodation ladder, which he did without making any objection.
From Up The Baltic Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark by Optic, Oliver
The accommodation ladder is a sort of light staircase occasionally fixed on the gangway.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
