Sentence examples for quarterdeck for from inspiring English sources

Someone had opened it and placed it on the quarterdeck for everyone to read.

We found a niche for the cage and said hello to Minnie the beagle, the only other animal passenger, in time to return to the quarterdeck for a glass of Champagne and the sight of Lower Manhattan sliding away on the port side.

Captain Reynolds invited me up to the quarterdeck, reserved for him and the officers; traditionally, officers have delivered orders from the elevated position of a ship's quarterdeck.

Fletcher Christian had been destined for the quarterdeck of a man-of-war, so his inability to endure criticism from a superior on a peaceable breadfruit run did not bode well.

On January 18 , 1911 in San Francisco Bay, Ely landed on a platform built on the quarterdeck of the battleship Pennsylvania, using wires attached to sandbags on the platform as arresting gear; he then took off from the same ship.

The quarterdeck of Esprit appears to be cursed.

He also had the rail removed between the foredeck and the quarterdeck of Minerve, and had iron hooks nailed to the freeboard below the starboard gangway as to provide atachement points for additional guns, thus building a continuous second deck on his frigate where he constituted a complete second battery.

Evans closed the Exposition on May 4 on the quarterdeck of Connecticut.

When Captain Berry complained that a pair of ornamental pistols had been stolen from him, Lejoille summoned the thief to the quarterdeck and took them for himself.

In 1994, SideBar was sold to Quarterdeck, the company best known for its QEMM memory management software.

But in the fast-moving tech world, continual improvements in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows software eliminated the need for many of Quarterdeck's products, sending sales and profits plummeting and dragging down the company's stock price.