gangway ladder

When all was ready, the prisoners filed out slowly and with difficulty, because of their chains, and descended the gangway ladder to the uncouth junk, with its painted, staring eyes.

From Civilization Tales of the Orient by Ellen Newbold La Motte

There was even a gangway ladder, and her gunwale not much more than a foot above the water.

From The Clammer and the Submarine by William John Hopkins

At all events when we ascended the gangway ladder not a soul was to be seen; our lads therefore quickly clapped on the hatches, beginning with the fore-scuttle, and the brig was ours.

From A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story by D.L. Mays

When Zaidie had made her winter toilet, and Redgrave had found the air to be quite respirable, but of Arctic cold, they went down the gangway ladder about twenty minutes later.

From A Honeymoon in Space by George Chetwynd Griffith

After this they had to pull thirty miles, and when they got on board were so stiff that they could not come up the gangway ladder.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana