collision mat

Even if your face does look like a collision mat.

The only thing left is to get the collision mat into place.

We are going to fother a sail into a collision mat.

Tarpaulin When collision mats are not available, simple tarpaulins can be used.

The crew attempted to use collision mats to cover the hole in the ship's side, but it proved to be too large.

We'll fix the collision mat outside the hull and winch it home with the wire.

As Yellowstone moored alongside the nearby quay, her crew broke out a tarpaulin and collision mat.

Crewmen from the Gresham tried using collision mats to stem the flooding, but to no avail.

The compartments were evacuated and the DC parties had rigged up jury collision mats.

The collision mat was floating hard against Golden Adventurer's side, buoyant with trapped air among the mass of wiry fibre.

If the collision mat in the bows hooked and held on the work boat's gunwale, Baker would pull the bows under and swamp her.

Counterflooding of the portside trim cells and magazines reduced the list to 7 , but efforts to use collision mats to plug the holes failed.

As soon as the accident occurred the engines were stopped, the watertight doors closed, the pumps were set going, and collision mats and sails were passed under the ship's bottom.

After the bomb exploded, the Centurion's skipper tried to control the damage by rigging collision mats over the hole in the hull and closing certain watertight doors belowdecks," Tom replied. "

The collision mat looked like a five-ton Airedale terrier curled up to sleep in the bows of the work boat, just as shaggy and shapeless, and of the same wiry, furry brown colour.

With hand-signals, Nick positioned them around the shaggy head-high pile of the collision mat before he signalled to the helmsman to throw the gear in reverse and pull back from Golden Adventurer's side.

The broken connecting rod punctured the hull and Lieutenant F.G. Dineley, RN (in command during trials) ordered the use of collision mats to stem the intake of water and she was able to make port.

"But I saw a pair called Mesopotamian Officer's Model, with laces and real white buckskin collision mats between the knees, that would fit me, and I can pawn my----" At that moment there was a loud report.

A party under Lieutenant Herbert Heath attempted to unroll a collision mat down the side of the ship to patch the hole and slow the inrush of water, but by the time they could manhandle it into position they were standing in water, and had to abandon the attempt.

His hair was short, gray-white; it sat firmly on his head like a collision mat And over his head, on the back of the great chair, a steel-gray raven sat frozen; but it was not an ornament, for slowly metal-sheathed eyes opened and tiny bright red eyes peered out at Ryeland.