Trelawny wrote: "Shelley's was an undecked open boat, schooner rigged
and
being undecked
she would have sunk in two minutes" (letter to The Times, London, 3 January 1876). ❋ Rieger, James (1967)
Besides these, there were the Dredgermen, who, under pretence of dredging up coals and such like from the bottom of the river, hung about barges and other undecked craft, and when they saw an opportunity, threw any property they could lay their hands on overboard: in order slyly to dredge it up when the vessel was gone. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Upon the seas one must go in a little undecked sailing boat, that may be rowed in a calm; all the other journeys one must do afoot, none aiding. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
We had now been incessantly tossing about for four days in our small undecked boat, with constant disappointments and anxiety, and it was a great comfort to have a night of quiet and comparative safety. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And, mark, he noticed directly the wheel deserted and his bark off her course — and his only thought was to get that miserable, stripped, undecked, smoldering shell of a ship back again with her head pointing at her port of destination. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He saw that she was an English pilot-boat, undecked, but fitted with a cuddy forward, rigged luggerwise, and built for speed, yet fit to encounter almost any Channel surges. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
The proximity of the Via Popillia and Roman legions passing to and from Sicily prohibited to any large pirate fleets a haven there, but the few small-scale freebooters who used Scyllaeum were in the act of beaching their trim, undecked little vessels for the winter when that huge tumult of people descended upon the place. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)
Twelve triremes, seven quinqueremes, and fourteen undecked ships. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)
Never had Caesar enjoyed a sea voyage more, whipping along in a sleek undecked boat powered by fifty oarsmen who rowed to the beat of a drum, their chests and shoulders massively developed by years of this same exercise; the boat carried a second crew equally good, and they spelled each other before real tiredness set in, eating and drinking hugely in between bouts of rowing. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1993)
They numbered three hundred decked war galleys of three or more banks, over one hundred undecked two-banker biremes, and fifteen hundred transports stuffed with troops and marines. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)
Either of these would correctly be called an "undecked open boat." ❋ Rieger, James (1967)
The smack was of a couple of tons 'burden, undecked, with big fish-boxes built astern and amidships. ❋ George Van Schaick (N/A)
Smith had for instance, undecked and without air chambers. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Not only do we get a real glimpse of ourselves, undecked and unclothed, but the commonest habits of life, and the things that have helped to shape them day by day, put on a sort of strangeness, and come to shake hands with us again, and make us wonder that they should be just exactly what they are. ❋ Various (N/A)
Compare the high dead wall with its range of flower-pots, the porches undecked by woodbines or jessamine, the formal paths, the proximate kitchen, stables, and ungarnished _salon_ of ❋ Various (N/A)
There were small island-boats with rowing-benches along the sides; there were undecked cannon sloops and richly gilded frigates, which were models of the ones the kings had used on their travels. ❋ Unknown (1922)
The squadron with which Columbus set out on his first voyage consisted of three vessels -- the Santa Maria, completely decked, which carried the flag of Columbus as admiral, the Pinta, and the Niña, both caravels, i.e. undecked, with cabins and forecastles. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
It was undecked, and carried only one living occupant; the other object they had distinguished was really the carcass of an animal, of about the size of a large sheep. ❋ David Lindsay (1910)
This duty is extended to the sale of all ships and vessels of more than two tons burthen, whether decked or undecked. ❋ Unknown (1909)
