Always to be an officer on deck and at the spar deck.

He stepped up onto the wooden sparring deck.

The intensity of the November 10 storm would have made it difficult, if not impossible, to access the hatches from the spar deck.

First to be removed was the barracks structure on her spar deck, but the limited amount of funds allowed just a partial restoration.

The latter was topped by the spar deck, which had most of the passenger cabins and dining saloons.

She had three decks, the upper deck being a spar deck and the others designed for carrying passengers.

The spar deck of a frigate was so named because it was used to carry spare spars.

She was configured with a full length spar deck which was enclosed above the main deck.

As a result, he called for Cumberland and her sister ships to have a fully armed spar deck, along with guns on the gun deck.

She was renamed Tennessee 15 May 1869 and timbered up to the necessary height to allow a spar deck to be installed.

Three railroad cars were lashed to her spar deck and all but two cannons were removed when she departed on 4 March.

Half-deck: That portion of the deck next below the spar deck which is between the mainmast and the cabin.

None of her guns were primed for operation and the spar deck was filled with materials that were not properly stowed in the cargo hold.

Gun deck: (Naval) a deck below the spar deck where the ships' cannon were carried.

A round shot, probably an eight-pounder from a long falcon, slammed into her below the spar deck hammock nettings and just forward of the mainmast.

Decatur, the last man to leave the burning frigate, remained on board Philadelphia until flames blazed from the hatchways and ports of her spar deck.

The gun and berthing decks, the two levels below the spar deck, will be open less often, as crews are replacing planking and supports there.

She mounted thirty long krakens on her gundeck and thirty-two carronades on her spar decks.

The trailers had been lifted onto the specially constructed spar deck of the Ideal-X by a dockside gantry crane.

The first of these might be called a counter transom; next up was the window sill transom; above that, the spar deck transom.

Rather than being armed identically to her namesake, her design was amended to complete her as a 52-gun frigate with an unarmed spar deck.

"The explosion was terrible, breaking the beams of the spar deck, tearing open the waterways, ripping off starboard forechannels, and breaking fore-topmast."

This nominal armament was slightly altered during her 1813-18 commission, when two of the carronades on the spar deck were replaced with two extra 24 pounders.

Over the spar deck was a promenade deck, which was crowned by the bridge and boat deck, with the navigating bridge on top.

As he turned, staring flinty-eyed down the spar deck at the spluttering slow-burning fuses held by the gunners, he told his men, "Blow your matches, boys!"