And, in sober truth, so horrible was the prospect of going adrift in her without preparing for the adventure with oars, sail, mast, provisions, and water-most of which, by the lamplight only, were not to be come at amid the hideous muddle of wreckage-that sooner than face it I was perfectly satisfied to take my chance of the hulk sinking with me in her before the sun rose.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
A gory shell-like hulk slid back to the foot of the ramp.
"Warlord of Kor"
Terry Gene Carr
The big thresher was reduced to a blazing, smoking hulk in short order.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey