fireroom

He stood at one side as the stokers filed in from forward, ready to relieve those working in the fireroom below.

The steady thump and rattle of the pumps by which the fireroom was being cleared of water continued to sound in her ears.

It was mounted amidships between the fireroom hatch and the break of the to'gallant fo'c's'le.

He gave me an easy one, for a boy, but I struck and asked for a man's work, and got it—in the fireroom.

Perhaps that explosion in the fireroom had not been meant to injure the ship seriously.