stokehold

In the stokehold, where Lascars shoveled coal into boiler furnaces while observing the Ramadan fast, the intense heat and dehydration was possibly lethal for a coal-trimmer named Cupie, who died mysteriously and was quietly thrown overboard just before breakfast.

Here, for example, we read a typically complex and composite description of the labor of the coal drags in the ship's stokehold, part gothic, realist, and expressionist, providing the lurid horror all the surer a grip on the imagination:

The animalistic qualities of both crew and coolies, reminding readers of their affinity with "primitive man" (Mirror 71), further demolish any categories of "things." To the boatswain, the coolies appear as a "mound of writhing bodies" evocative of an insect swarm, but when he leaves in horror he finds the second mate no better, hiding "like a malignant little animal under a hedge" (Typhoon 59), while in the stokehold "the plump donkeyman toiled with his shovel mutely" (76), and Rout's arm is "long like a tentacle" (71).

Subterranean Theatre: The Maurie will delve into the underbelly of the mighty "Scouse Boat", the Mauretania, and immerse the audience into the lives and conflicts of those who worked below the decks in the ship's stokehold. It will be staged in the Cunard Building itself, and will offer the audience a chance to tour the rooms as the play leads them through the lives of those who powered the mighty ships.

No stranger to shipboard life, he quickly ran up the fiddly, near the entrance of the stokehold, to standby the fire and repair party, and to assume boarding party duties If called upon.

"One of the cylinders of the engine had been completely wrecked, and steam was hissing out in dense, scalding clouds, penetrating to every nook and cranny of the engine-room and stokehold.