Gang plank

Then it was across the narrow gang plank from Forth to Triad, steaming kits through a narrow hatch and down through the engine room and the motor room to the stokers' mess right aft.

Our ship docked first and the gang plank was secured.

Then the long climb up the gang plank ended and the even more difficult one, climbing the ladders downward to their racks while outfitted in field transport packs into the bowels, of the Billy Weigel.