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At this stage of the proceedings, Sefton and his brother were ordered below, and placed in a cell on the orlop deck, twelve feet or more below the waterline.

Having inspected the waist of the ship, the main and upper gundecks, he led me below to the orlop deck, where right aft was situated the gunroom or midshipmen's mess.

The orlop deck between bulkheads which formed the top of the tunnel was also water-tight.

Extra pumps were worked, and while some of the carpenters were fixing diagonal shores forward, others were examining the orlops and other parts.

"The next tier's jammed up under the orlop beams," it said.