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The rudder freed itself, but the propeller was found to be athwartship, having been forced into that position by the floe some time after August 1.

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I believe, the mortification he felt at the Arabs having licked us gave him more pain than the damage done to his legs by the ball of the matchlock, which had taken him athwartship through the fleshy part of his understandings -- breaking no bones, but crippling him all the same.

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

The projected area looking forward is 22 square ft. and the projected area looking athwartship 22.84 square feet.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888 Various

An athwartship line of armor runs from the water line to the barbettes, resting upon the protective deck.

Marvels of Modern Science Paul Severing

The beams on these boats ran athwartship, rested on sides and bulkheads, and ranged from 6 by 10-in. to 10 by 12-in., spaced 2 ft. apart, and dressed to give a convex surface to the deck, which was usually 3 in., in some cases 4 in., in thickness, and made up of narrow plank from 4 to 6 in. in width.

Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The Site of the Terminal Station. Paper No. 1157 George C. Clarke

She is divided into seven watertight compartments by athwartship bulkheads.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 Various

Resting upon the water-belt and the athwartship or diagonal armor, and following the same direction is a layer of armor usually somewhat thinner which is called the lower case-mate armor; it extends up to the lower edge of the broadside gun ports, and resting upon it in turn is the upper case-mate armor, following the same direction, and forming the protection for the broadside battery.

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The berths of the nations run athwartship, or north and south as the great ark is anchored.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

Each stateroom would then have been about 7 feet long fore and aft and could have contained four athwartship berths.

The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 Howard Irving Chapelle

To bring the compass needle back to North it would be necessary to move up nearer the compass dial the fore-and-aft magnet (shown below), whose magnetism would act on the compass needle on this heading of the ship exactly as the athwartship magnet acted on the compass needle when the ship was headed North:

Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919