The lower gundeck is the key to any fight with faster vessels.

Tell the lieutenant on the lower gundeck to keep firing, no matter what!

That I was, above all, a loose cannon on the gundeck of state.

And this was in the open air; the lower gundeck must be like some medieval vision of hell.

He could hear men singing from a gundeck below.

The middle gundeck, between the torpedo tubes, was left empty.

James started down the companionway toward the noise, which seemed to be coming from the gundeck.

He glanced forward again; it seemed so bare without the nets spread above the gundeck.

If you had spent a year on the gundeck of the Meeuu, you would understand.

Pass the word to the starboard battery, and see that the lower gundeck understands what we are about!

Kellett had only served on a lower gundeck once, as a very junior lieutenant.

It'd be safer for him on the gundeck.

He scampered up and down the gundeck, fretting over every detail of the work.

When Eusebius reached the gundeck, he headed to the starboard side of the ship.

Her main gundeck armament of twenty-eight 42-pounder guns was later replaced by 32-pounders.

From there he slithered down a rope to the gundeck where the main pumps were situated.

Her lee scuppers were often awash and a good deal of water was coming into the port gundeck.

Sharpe glanced left and right at the unfriendly faces in the gundeck's gloom.

She seemed enormous, black hulled with a double yellow strake above and below the gundeck.

He tried to imagine the conditions on the gundeck of the Meeuw at that moment, but his imagination balked.

Sharpe turned away as a swarm of Spanish fighters came streaming up from the gundeck below.

One of the holes in her hull was barely above the waterline, the other higher, probably in the gundeck.

The sea poured through the splintered opening, and swamped the gundeck under an icy green wave.

The horrors of the Meeuw's gundeck were already fading, seemed now to belong to an old nightmare.

He saw that the explosion of the Mary Starbuck had made a terrible slaughter on the gundeck.