But by Sept. 7, when Mr. Antonini met with Franklin Duran, 40, a Venezuelan oil products tycoon and close friend, at a Quarterdeck restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Mr. Duran was telling him that Venezuelan authorities no longer trusted Mr. Antonini and suspected that he was talking to American law enforcement.
The facility is designed to accommodate 1056 recruits, and it includes berthing, classrooms, learning resource centers, a galley, a quarterdeck, and a modern HVAC system.
It had a low hull with a small quarterdeck structure and an arrangement of guns that was unique for its time.
It had a low hull with no forecastle, only a low quarterdeck, and no poop deck.
They had a lower quarterdeck, two more six-inch guns and a slightly thicker belt.
At 12 15, a round shot swept Uranies quarterdeck, killing a helmsman, cutting a boy in half, wounding another, and severing Tartu's leg under the knee; Tartu was brought below deck and Lieutenant Wuibert assumed command of Uranie.
A cell was built on Pandora's quarterdeck, a structure known as "Pandora's Box" where the prisoners, legs in irons and wrists in handcuffs, were to be confined for almost five months.
Dressed differently, they could have been swabbies on the quarterdeck, a cluster of comrades.
"I certainly don't think the intelligence and homeland security business is going to go away anytime soon," said William Farmer, managing director of Jefferies Quarterdeck, a Washington, D.C., investment bank.
Conversely, Fleet Captain Honoré Ganteaume later reported the cause as an explosion on the quarterdeck, preceded by a series of minor fires on the main deck among the ship's boats.
Shortly afterwards, a fire broke out on the quarterdeck after an arms locker exploded, which was eventually extinguished with difficulty by the crew.
