| 单词 | steerageway |
| 例句 | She had no steerageway on her; and you might as well keep out of the storm. The Corner House Girls on a Houseboat How they sailed away, what happened on the voyage, and what was discovered 2012-01-20T03:00:16.183Z We had been in a storm for four days, three of which the steamer had been thrown up into the wind, the machinery working slowly, just sufficient to keep steerageway on the ship. The Comstock Club 2011-05-18T02:00:16.367Z He closed the throttle and, careful to maintain sufficient speed for steerageway, allowed the plane to drift backward in the heavy wind until the mouth of the little harbor lay off his port quarter. Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman 2011-04-14T02:00:39.800Z On this day there were fewer water hazards, and the current of the enlarged river was so swift that they had little to do save to keep steerageway on the birch-bark. Stranded in Arcady "The storm enveloped the vessel" Nat signaled for full speed ahead, as he knew he would need all the steerageway possible to take the vessel through the waves that, every moment, were becoming larger. The Boy Pilot of the Lakes Nat Morton's Perils At the same time I had the dynamo motors started, so that we would have steerageway for the diving rudder, and commanded that the U-boat should stop at the depth of twenty meters. The Adventures of the U-202 An Actual Narrative We had enough steerageway to drift over your position after a few turns of the screws down by the reef passage. The Wailing Octopus The word was given to “slow down,” and the speed of the big ships decreased until they had barely steerageway. The Boys of '98 The engineer now shut off his engines, and the great boat drifted slowly down upon the floating body of the dead bear, with just steerageway enough to enable the pilot to lay her alongside. The Young Alaskans on the Trail As the other approached, Harry shut off the power of the engines, checking them to little more than steerageway. Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub With her small area of exposed sail and with the wind buffeting her, she had halted and paid off, lacking steerageway. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Her masts had long since gone by the board, and upon the stump of the mizzen-stick a bit of canvas like a goose-wing had been spread in the useless endeavor to maintain steerageway. Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast Under just enough steam to give the vessel steerageway, they wound in and out between protruding rocks and miniature islands amidst the white foam of breakers that pounded upon the rocks all around them. The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell There was no way of winning a chance through the rocks, such as there might have been with steerageway, a tenuous chance, and yet a chance. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul There was still a small air out of the southeast, sufficient to give him steerageway in the swell that ran for hours after the storm. Burned Bridges In the stern sheets a young man stood, resting one hand on the tiller, his navigating a sinecure, for the wind was barely enough to give him steerageway. Poor Man's Rock There was not more than a capful of wind; but once let the canvas fill, and the schooner would get steerageway. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod About dark the breeze died, leaving the little sloop barely under steerageway. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado He held her nose up to the open sea, allowing her only steerageway, the gale slithering off her flattened sail. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul As the little brig felt the breeze and gathered steerageway, she was headed for the chase, bringing the wind on her starboard quarter. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue "Crafts of your bottom can't navigate in these waters," he agreed, earnestly; and, indeed, the room was so cluttered with his belongings that voluminous hoop-skirts could not get steerageway. Quaint Courtships Its smoke-stacks were folded back for passing under the bridge, and its great paddlewheel scarcely moved except to get steerageway. The Iron Woman "The engine's broke down, I guess; anyhow, she don't answer her helm, I can't get steerageway on her." The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest I rigged up a sail out of the oar and the canvas spray shield, but there wa'n't wind enough to give us steerageway. The Depot Master |
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