Likewise there were raised constructions at bow and stern, something like small forts, called forecastles and aftercastles; the former word still remaining under our modern term forecastle. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
High "forecastles" and "aftercastles," and heavy tops, thus became of little use and were discarded, as were also the oars used on smaller craft, as the art of sailing became better understood and vessels more seaworthy. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
But as the fight was still at comparatively close quarters -- owing to the guns being small, and of no great range, -- warships were fitted with cumbrous "forecastles" and "aftercastles" (see illustration on page 69), and with heavy tops on the masts, to contain musketeers, in order to command the enemy's deck. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
The first statement of each man -- ever an ancient one in homeward - bound forecastles -- was: "No boarding-house sharks in mine." ❋ Unknown (2010)
A man can sail in the forecastles of big ships all his life and never know what real sailing is. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And, later, I remember the runaway apprentices -- boys of eighteen and twenty, of middle class English families, who had jumped their ships and apprenticeships in various ports of the world and drifted into the forecastles of the sealing schooners. ❋ Unknown (2010)
My bedroom at home was not large, yet it could have contained a dozen similar forecastles, and taking into consideration the height of the ceiling, ❋ Unknown (2010)
His mind seemed to turn, on the instant, into a vast camera obscura, and he saw arrayed around his consciousness endless pictures from his life, of stoke-holes and forecastles, camps and beaches, jails and boozing-kens, fever-hospitals and slum streets, wherein the thread of association was the fashion in which he had been addressed in those various situations. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In the mid-sixteenth century, galleons tended to be ships of moderate size, often about 200 tons, with high forecastles and sterncastles. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)
Although the “total institution” of a ship resembled medieval fiefdoms, forecastles could be as egalitarian as later legends of the French Foreign Legion or of the American West, and as in both, identity was as fluid as the sea. ❋ JOE JACKSON (2003)
Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of the noble South Sea war-wood, are frequently met with in the forecastles of American whalers. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The decks sported a shambles of wooden huts and jutting penthouses with a forest of iron chimneys kinked at all angles; more of these stood atop quarterdecks, forecastles and roundhouses. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)
Its towers sprawled along the floor of Ocean, where the stumps of a few yet stood; and ancient wrecks lay among them, who had been ancient already when the wrecks had been fair young ships launched to shouts of joy, with banners in their rigging and dancing on their forecastles. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1987)
Men appeared on forecastles, cast off mooring lines. ❋ Cook, Glen (1972)
But it was discussed in all forecastles, and a great many crewmen believed it obstinately. ❋ Leinster, Murray (1964)
The weary men had to turn to and build cabins on the forecastles; and here at last they managed to keep dry, and to lie down and rest. ❋ Mildred Stapley Byne (N/A)
And this was a type of the forecastles of those days. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
British marine which has happily passed away, -- a hard life in little stifling holds or forecastles, with hard fare, -- a base life, for the sailor, oppressed on shipboard, was the prey of vile women and land-sharks when on shore. ❋ Henry Coppee (N/A)
"Back in [ye olde] times we'd [plop] down on the forecastle and [kick back] a pint." "You didn't stand close enough to the edge again and pissed all over the forecastle, asshole." ❋ TrufflesPygmyHamster (2015)
