spirit-room

Hoseman, Axeman, or Smotherer, or belonging to the Carpenter's gang, or detailed as a Sentinel over boats 'falls or spirit-room, will lash and carry up two hammocks and stow them in the nettings on his way to

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.

In vessels partially armed with shell-guns, the best place, perhaps, for these rooms is immediately forward of the spirit-room, but not communicating with it; and in those armed entirely with such guns, the additional shell-rooms necessary may be, perhaps, more conveniently placed abaft, and adjoining the delivering-passage of the forward magazine, than elsewhere.

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.

I must do the Gaul the justice to declare, that during my confinement, he behaved like a gentleman, in supplies from the pantry and spirit-room.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

It soon reached the spirit-room hatches, which were underneath, and the powder magazine bulkhead.

A Sailor of King George

Soldiers and sailors were penetrating even into the spirit-room, broaching casks, staving others, and drinking till they fell exhausted.

Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.

The captain was killed instantly by the fall of a top-gallant yard, which crushed his skull; while the sailors, who in such moments seem possessed by utter recklessness, broke into the spirit-room and drank to excess.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

Soldiers and sailors were penetrating even into the spirit-room, broaching casks, staving others and drinking till they fell exhausted.

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.

Indian Chief, in Charleston harbor, came a stirring account of a night of mutiny aboard, due to the crew breaking into the spirit-room and possessing themselves of its contents, then going mad with drink.

Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay

This brought the engineers on deck and the coal-passers with them; and the coal-passers -- "a beach-combin 'lot," he called them -- led in breaking into the spirit-room, and before long pretty much all the men of the crew were as drunk as lords.

In the Sargasso Sea A Novel

To this end all my previous plans had been arranged; but, on my being placed _hors de combat_ by my wounds, Captain Gruise, on whom the command of the prize devolved, chose to interpose his own judgment and content himself with the _Esmeralda_ alone; the reason assigned being that the English had broken into her spirit-room and were getting drunk, whilst the Chilians were disorganized by plundering.

The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I