A couple of men were sheltering from the following wind in the well-deck before the bridge, quietly smoking. ❋ MacLean, Alistair, 1922- (1985)
That, at least, wouldn't excite suspicion: the wind was strong now, the cold rain driving across the well-deck at an angle of almost forty-five degrees. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1961)
Negotiating the hurricane blast that swept across the open well-deck was no easier this time than it had been the last, and in the intervening half-hour the darkness had deepened until it was almost as black as night. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1961)
On the well-deck between the two platforms, almost at my feet, men were moving large barrels with the aid of a tracked crane, trundling them into a brightly-lit opening half-way along the high bulkhead on the northern platform. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1961)
We were now close up to the side of the ship, but still in deep shadow: the ship lay close in to the massive legs, but the platform overhung those legs, and so ourselves, by a good dozen feet, so that the angled light from the floodlights by the crane on the well-deck above barely succeeded in touching the faraway side -- the port side -- of the upper deck of the ship. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1961)
I crossed to the far side of the south platform, found another set of rungs and dropped down to the well-deck. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1961)
The fourth side gave directly on to the well-deck where the crane was. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1961)
On this lower level the thin spindly cigar-shaped outline of a crane reached up as high as the topmost level of the columns: the ship was moored directly below this cut-out well-deck, spanning the gap and a couple of steel pillars on either side of the gap. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1961)
Three minutes later, dressed in my outer clothes and dripping like a blanket that's just been hauled from a wash-boiler, I was on my way up the enclosed gangway to the well-deck of the oil-rig a hundred feet above my head. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1961)
To get to the other side of the rig we had to cross the hundred-foot width of the well-deck where I'd talked to Joe Curran, the roustabout foreman, in the early hours of that morning. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1961)
The wind on the open well-deck shrieked and gusted as powerfully as ever, but its direction had changed and I had to fight my way almost directly against it. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1961)
This last was often done in shark-ridden waters, to the great disapproval of the ship's officers, some of whom would stand on the well-deck, revolver in hand, while more than once a swift bullet was sent shrilling over our heads at some great fin rising out of the sea beyond. ❋ Florence Kimball Russel (N/A)
The Tommies sleep on bales of forage in the after well-deck and all over the place. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
At first sight HMT Antenor seemed to be not unlike my early childish drawings of ships, high fo'castle, a low forward well-deck, high superstructure, a low aft well-deck and a high stern structure. ❋ John Cox (N/A)
The late afternoon was spent in the _Aragon_, down in the depths of a well-deck, waiting for the fleet-sweeper to take them to Anzac. ❋ Unknown (1930)
Margate came up, gay with flags and light dresses, with a band playing ragtime on the well-deck, and people dancing to a concertina at the stern. ❋ Mary Grant Bruce (1918)
The after well-deck held the horse shelters and an auxiliary kitchen. ❋ Herbert Brayley Collett (1912)
Then he came to me suddenly about eleven o'clock as I stood on the well-deck, smoking a pipe before turning in. ❋ Arthur Shearly Cripps (1910)
Her few words as we walked up and down the well-deck were words that burnt and shone in the cold dark. ❋ Arthur Shearly Cripps (1910)
The wave that spoke so politely had travelled some distance aft, and found itself all mixed up on the deck amidships, which was a well-deck sunk between high bulwarks. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
