The girl slipped into the radiation shelter and wheeled the heavy hatch shut behind her.

The robot pushed a button and the heavy outside hatch fell shut.

In the centre of the stokers' mess was another, heavier hatch.

Jeldavi released the lock and closed the heavy hatch behind him.

She turned and banged her flat hand on the heavy hatch.

The next real destination was the Missouri, the state's biggest river, a place of heavy hatches and often spectacular fishing.

The open space descended through all three levels of the ship, with heavy hatches at each level and on the outside.

They wrestled the heavy hatch into place and dropped it.

I entered the control room through a heavy armoured hatch.

With a sigh of relief, he lifted the heavy hatch off to the side.