A light upper deck on a steamer.
1835. On some of the larger class of steamers, there is yet a third deck and range of cabins before you come to the roof, or hurricane-deck—upon the forward extremity of which the glazed and painted cabinet, containing the tiller, is placed, affording a lofty and unimpeded view of the channel.—C. J. Latrobe, ‘The Rambler in North America,’ i. 218 (N.Y.).
1835. [You] quit the cabin for the seats on the boiler-deck, or still better, for the hurricane-deck above.—Id., p. 223.
1835. I got on the hurricane deck, took off my hat, and returned the salute.—‘Col. Crockett’s Tour,’ p. 147 (Phila.).
1838. The whole length of her hurricane deck was entirely swept away.—The Jeffersonian, Albany, May 5, p. 96.
1838. It was delightful to remove from the noise, and heat, and confusion below to the lofty hurricane deck, and lounge away hour after hour in gazing upon the varied and beautiful scenes which presented themselves in constant succession to the eye.—E. Flagg, ‘The Far West,’ i. 29 (N.Y.). (Italics in the original.)
1842. The promendade or hurricane-deck being a-top of that again.—Chas. Dickens, ‘American Notes,’ i. 184. (N.E.D.)
1850. Going out upon the hurricane deck, the first object that met my astonished gaze was a coffin, and, weeping by its side, a lady and two young children.—James Weir, ‘Lonz Powers,’ i. 201 (Phila.).
1852. All who had hurried upon the ‘hurricane-deck’ were horrified at the cries of wailing despair that, mingling with the roaring of the waters, came up from the deck immediately below the ladies’ cabin.—Knick. Mag., xl. 157 (Aug.).
1853. Around the bows and upon the guards the bales [of cotton] are piled as high as the “hurricane deck.”—S. A. Hammett (‘Philip Paxton’), ‘A Stray Yankee in Texas,’ p. 412.
1855. Just as the people were rushing up the stairway upon the hurricane-deck, the boat drove upon the shore.—D. G. Mitchell, ‘Fudge Doings,’ i. 194–5.
1860. The rain now patters on the hurricane deck, and lights suddenly gleam in the cabin.—Richmond Enquirer, July 13, p. 1/7.
1875. The boiler deck, the hurricane deck, and the texas deck are fenced and ornamented with clean white railings.—Mark Twain, ‘Old Times on the Mississippi,’ Atlantic Monthly, xxxv. p. 70/1 (Jan.).
1882. The torch was applied, and almost before you could jump into the water the flames burst through the hurricane roof, the enemy firing several rounds of canister or grape-shot at us as we were wading and scrambling up the bank, but happily without injury.—‘Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,’ x. 478 (Richmond, Va.).
