accommodation ladder

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Without waiting for a reply, he sprang forward to the head of the accommodation ladder and shinned down it into the launch.

From A Traitor's Wooing by Hill, Headon

At last we reached the yacht, and pulled up at the accommodation ladder.

From The Kidnapped President by Boothby, Guy Newell

Mr Rogerson, see that the accommodation ladder is ready; Captain Morrison is coming off.”

From The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa by Percy-Groves, J.

The accommodation ladder is a sort of light staircase occasionally fixed on the gangway.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

The second officer ran up the accommodation ladder.

From A Roving Commission Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)