steerage

How To Use steerage In A Sentence

• After we had lost all steerage way we were swept bodily southwards by the inblowing winds towards the cyclone's centre.
• In the absence of steerage way, the yacht can't head up; the misplaced center of effort takes charge, and she yaws.
• The Seastag moved slowly northward, then hove to off the southern breakwater, waiting, the paddle wheels turning just enough to keep the ship with bare steerageway. Wellspring of Chaos
• The steerage, as this area is called, was hardly more than six feet wide and perhaps thirty feet in length. STONE THE CROWS, IT'S A VACUUM-CLEANER
• Next day Johansen, the new mate, was routed from the cabin by Wolf Larsen, and sent into the steerage to sleep thereafter, while I took possession of the tiny cabin state-room, which, on the first day of the voyage, had already had two occupants. Chapter 5
• Although the paddle wheels were beginning to pick up a slow and even rhythm, even Kharl could tell that the ship was losing headway and might soon even lose steerageway. Wellspring of Chaos
• Once the ship has stopped, it is at the mercy of wind and current until steerage way can be restored.
• a few strokes, so as to give the boat what they called steerage way, that is, way through the water, so that holding the paddle in one position or the other would steer it. Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont
• With the dodger up it sailed downwind at nearly a knot and a half, complete with steerage!
• He was left with no steerage in force seven gales and the situation worsened when all power and communications were lost.