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Updated: June 3, 2025
Manuel saluted, and ran away aft to give orders about the boats, and, five minutes later, they were being pulled across the water toward the now motionless gun-runner. Jim saw Manuel climb up her tall sides; and then he went into his chart-house to await the lieutenant's return, and to think out the details of the plan about which he had spoken to Manuel.
She must be signalling." A thrill goes through the battleship. In a minute the big steel fighter may be lying on her side, stricken; or there may be the opportunity for a fair fight. The captain sends an officer below to the detector and changes the course of the ship. Every one awaits developments, tensely. The wireless operator enters the chart-house. I can't raise her.
But let a machinist's mate tell you in his own way of the night he was standing a fire-room watch this with all due respect to the chart-house bulkhead, the trolley line, the buckling decks, and the radio operator who was confined this night he was on watch in the fire-room. Was it rough? He thought so.
While the poop is quite large for promenading, the available space for deck-chairs is limited to the awnings that stretch across from either side of the chart-house and that are of the width of the chart-house. This space again is restricted to one side or the other according to the slant of the morning and afternoon sun and the freshness of the breeze.
Bert Rhine abandoned his inspection of the booby-hatch, and, with the second mate, the latter still carrying his empty Smith & Wesson, sprang into the press about the chart-house door. O wise, clever, cautious, old Chinese steward! He made no emergence.
Sometimes, passing the mouth of one ventilator that is in the after wall of the chart-house, I can hear their plaintive squealing and crying from far beneath in the coal. Other and luckier rats are in the 'tween decks for'ard, where all the spare suits of sails are stored. They come out and run about the deck at night, steal food from the galley, and lap up the dew. Which reminds me that Mr.
This is a steel shaft that leads up from the coal-carrying bowels of the ship beneath the lazarette and that wins to the outside-world via the after-wall of the chart-house. In fact, it occupies the hollow inside of the double walls of the afterwall of the chart-house.
"Get your anchor up, Mr Milsom, if you please," said Jack, allowing his eyes to stray shoreward as Milsom repeated the order to the mate. As he looked, he became aware of something in the nature of a commotion or disturbance at the end of the pier; and, entering the chart-house, he brought forth a pair of splendid binoculars with which to investigate.
Breaking off the conversation abruptly, he Weal into the chart-house, and returned with a telescope, which, he balanced against a stay. "There's a steamer comin' after us in a desprit hurry," he announced, when a prolonged examination had enabled him to form an opinion. "After us?" repeated Dick. "That's the way I read it. She's from Massowah. The reg'lar channel is fifty miles east.
But the contents of those bags are still somewhere on board this ship. And if they are not found in time, by gad, sir, we will all be in Kingdom Come before we know it." The first explosion occurred at eleven minutes past six. The chart-house and part of the bridge were blown to pieces.
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