gangplank

Somewhere beyond our portholes the gangplank rumbled down.

“They will be taking her down the gangplank on a stretcher tomorrow, trussed up like a parcel.”

Before we reached the gangplank at New York City, they dropped us once on cobblestones.

Jack said he watched me until my feet disappeared over the gangplank …

The gangplank went up late in the afternoon and our connections with Honolulu, relatives, and friends were severed for the present, and undoubtedly it will be months, if not years, before we will be allowed to return …