Once she made it to the stern ladder, they slipped under the sea again.

Johnson stepped onto the stern ladder, steadying himself against the sweating hull plates, and jumped into the shallow water.

Cussle lowered the stern ladder and stood back.

Men swarmed on top of the roundhouse and were going into the boats by the stern ladders.

They'll have a stern ladder.

The men came down the stern ladder.

Jack quickly lowered and secured the mirror, then sidled back to the stern ladder.

In the end, they swung me into her by a rope (for they had no stern ladder), and then they cut me adrift.

One shot from the Confederates carried away Shenandoah's stern ladder.

He crept aboard by way of the stern ladder and found himself in the midst of a most intense activity.