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Elsinore was up in the eye of the wind, and making sternway, I found that by putting the wheel sharply over, one way or the other, I could swing her bow off.

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Then the ship would become unmanageable and drift away, with the possibility of getting excessive sternway on her and so damaging rudder or propeller, the

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The mass of iron fell half in – board upon the now stayed boat, and gave her sternway, with a splintered plank.

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With the anchor broken out Hotspur gathered momentary sternway.

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But before sternway could be got on the boat, the infuriated monster made a sudden turn, dashed upon and stove it into fragments.

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In order to enable the vessel to turn speedily, she is fitted with the sternway rudder of

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Squaring her head-yards, the brig dropped her mainsail, braced her cross jack-yard sharp aback, put her helm a-weather and got sternway, while her after sails and helm kept her to the wind.

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Unconcernedly he made his way along the sternway and into the now deserted quarters of the fighters.

Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950

Now the Baliol shell had made sternway sufficient for the man in the skiff to seize the rudder.

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Elsinore was up in the eye of the wind, and making sternway, I found that by putting the wheel sharply over, one way or the other, I could swing her bow off.

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