afterdeck in a sentence
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- President Truman on the afterdeck of the yacht, the U . S . S . WILLIAMSBURG, during a vacation in Key West, Florida : ( left to right ) Charles Murphy, Special Counsel to the President; President Truman; Admiral Robert Dennison, Naval Aide to the President; Charles Ross, Press Secretary.
- "Eurana " s name was later changed to "'SS " Alamar " "', and was used in World War II . At Murmansk, on 27 May 1942, " Alamar " was hit by several aerial bombs on her afterdeck and set afire after Stukas ( dive bombers ) attacked for one and a half hours.
- In July 1971, following shakedown training in the Caribbean area and a surveillance mission off Haiti, she entered the Boston Naval Shipyard for overhaul and installation of the Basic Point Defense Missile System, which featured short-range " Sea Sparrow " guided missiles in an eight-round launcher on her afterdeck . " Trippe " was the Navy's first destroyer-type ship to receive this later-widespread contribution to shipboard protection against air and missile attack.
- Designed to extend the life of the destroyer by eight years, the overhaul enabled her to meet the challenge of newer and faster enemy submarines . " Ault " s 40 mm and 20 mm gunmounts were removed, and her 01 level afterdeck was converted to a helicopter flight deck to facilitate the use of drone antisubmarine helicopters ( DASH ), one of the Navy's newest weapon systems which enabled the destroyer to reach out farther in search of submarine targets.
- When her marriage broke up, she moved back to D'Escousse with her son and, " nervous as a schoolboy, " Cameron asked her to help him sail his schooner to Louisbourg, Cape Breton in 1979 . He writes that he fell " hopelessly in love with her " when she asked him to take the tiller, vomited over the side, " wiped her mouth, climbed back to the afterdeck and reached for the tiller . " They were married in May 1980 in D'Escousse and 10 years later sailed around Cape Breton Island in " Silversark ", a voyage recounted in " Wind, Whales and Whisky ".