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engine-room - definition and meaning
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However, the inspection, conducted through contractors, found some issues requiring attention—namely, engine-room components dirty with oil.
New Gulf-Spill Report Points to Missed Signs Angel Gonzalez 2011
The shattered wreck of the lifeboat they had held lay on the fiddley beside the smashed engine-room skylight, which was covered by a tarpaulin.
THE SEA FARMER 2010
I was passing coal to the firemen, who shovelled it into the furnaces, where its energy was transformed into steam, which, in the engine-room , was transformed into the electricity with which the electricians worked.
Chapter 20 2010
Explosions in the engine-room area could have been avoided or delayed if the system was designed to automatically take these steps when gas was detected, the report concluded.
Spill Report Faults Transocean Rig Russell Gold 2011
Before that you must pass through the engine-room as an oiler.
Chapter 20 2010
He sniffed down the forecastle hatch, sniffed into the galley where two Chinese cooks jabbered unintelligibly to him, sniffed down the cabin companionway, sniffed down the engine-room skylight and for the first time knew gasoline and engine oil; but sniff as he would, wherever he ran, no scent did he catch of Skipper.
CHAPTER XX 2010
“Ring off,” Captain MacElrath commanded in his slow thick voice; and the third officer worked the lever of the engine-room telegraph.
THE SEA FARMER 2010
In the biggest high-profile incident in the U.S. in recent years, more than 3,000 passengers aboard the Carnival Splendor were towed to shore in 2010 by a Mexican tugboat after an engine-room fire cut off the ship's electricity.
Cruise Operators See Shares Fall, Defend Safety Mike Esterl 2012
We battened down the engine-room hatch, and the sea rose to it and over it and climbed perilously near to the cabin companion-way and skylight.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
As an oiler in the great engine-room I was confident that few things concerning steam would escape me.
Chapter 20 2010
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