![]() Small groups of men were uncovering each of the lifeboats at random, and tossing in lanterns and tins of biscuits, but the crowds were still holding back as crewmen moved to the davits and began turning the cranks that swung the lifeboats out and then lowered them to where they could be boarded by the extremely hesitant group that stood and watched them. Worse yet, supposing she asks for Davits and he still stands there like a video extra or something elsesay, some yellowbellied embodiment named Cringe? ![]() I am climbing down from the davits in haste when I hear Billy Lanney beseeching Hammerhead Jack. He did not bring those uncouth vermiculations to a stop until he was well back in the shelter of a rusty capstan, cut off from the light by a lifeboat swinging on its davits.ĭeparting from Nukualofu just ahead of the carriers was a group of high-sided gray transports, their decks green with Marine fatigue uniforms and ringed with small landing craft hanging from their davits. He found a tin can - possibly left in a leaky boat before its final boist to the davits - and gave her a drink, to which he had added a few drops of the whisky.īilly climbed aboard, and he and Durant hoisted the yawl-boat on her davits. ![]() ![]() Although this was a shore-to-shore operation which required only one night spent in the English Channel, big transports with landing craft on davits were employed in addition to beaching craft. ![]()
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