Meanings of shipboard sounds in English

But this time it was not only because of the shipboard sounds.

The shipboard sounds were muffled, distant, voices far off and without meaning or purpose.

Quietly spoken and almost lost in the creak and murmur of shipboard sounds, but Adam Bolitho was instantly awake.

There were more flashes, the report almost lost in shipboard sounds and the hiss of spray along the weather side.

It was something to say, to give himself time while the shipboard sounds and movements brought him back to reality and purpose.

It was almost noon, and the shipboard sounds were intruding once more after the squeal of trucks and gun-tackles from the starboard-side eighteen-pounders.

Eventually he sat down, his head in his hands, his ears only half-aware of the shipboard sounds, the unending chorus in any living vessel.