The stables were crowded with bunks and men -- like a cattleship forecastle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them] Reference

It was in this quarter, for a brief sweet time, that Love and Beauty made their strange home, as though a pair of halcyons should choose to nest in the masthead of a cattleship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prose Fancies (Second Series)] Reference