How To Use Steerage In A Sentence
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After we had lost all steerage way we were swept bodily southwards by the inblowing winds towards the cyclone's centre.
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In the absence of steerage way, the yacht can't head up; the misplaced center of effort takes charge, and she yaws.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Once the ship has stopped, it is at the mercy of wind and current until steerage way can be restored.
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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
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With the dodger up it sailed downwind at nearly a knot and a half, complete with steerage!
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He was left with no steerage in force seven gales and the situation worsened when all power and communications were lost.
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In Titanic, virtually every Englishman was insufferable, while happy Irish fiddlers and dancers created a wonderful atmosphere in steerage.
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Abaft the foremast, and between it and the main hatch, stood a deck-house, the fore part of which constituted the berthage for the steerage passengers, while the after-part consisted of
The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"
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A second moment they devoted to the wreckage of the same on deck -- the mizzen-topmast, thrust through the spanker and supported vertically by the stout canvas, thrashing back and forth with each thrash of the sail, the main - topmast squarely across the ruined companionway to the steerage.
CHAPTER XV
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The engine must be kept ticking over sufficiently to provide enough power to overcome prop drag and to provide steerage way when coming about.
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His ship, moving at three or four knots, with just a little more than steerageway on, would give them a couple of minutes of decent lee.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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They cut their electric motors back, slowed to steerageway, and that's why they disappeared off the scopes.
Red Storm Rising
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I would take the ordinary precaution of slowing down, whether I was in a ship equipped for ice or any other, compatible with keeping steerage way for the size of the ship.
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“Maintain station with bare steerageway, aye, sir,” the Coast Guard Officer repeated.
Joint Operations
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In another five minutes we had steerage from the filled sail, and
Chapter 19
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Another, the Ionia, was swept by high seas and for many hours barely maintained steerage way.
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Writing of the conditions in steerage, one cabin passenger commented ‘poor creatures, it is a horrible place between decks, so many people in so small a space, I wonder how they live.’
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The Kilo was moving at steerageway just barely below the surface of the ocean, her antenna poking up above the surface for a scheduled communications break with the team ashore.
Arctic Fire
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I discharged one night cue to just buy the ticket of a piece of steerage.
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If she comes out of there," he said, "hard and snappy, putting us to windward of the boats, it's likely there'll be empty bunks in steerage and fo'c'sle.
Chapter 17
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Letters and travel diaries indicate that dancing was an activity enjoyed by both steerage and cabin passengers, illustrating dance's potential as a site for exchange between these groups.
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There had to be enough canvass up to give us drive and steerage way but not enough to speed us along faster than the following waves.
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TheS-570 was making just enough turns for steerageway.
Pressure Point
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Twenty-four percent of the ship's total crew survived, a percentage point lower than the poor steerage passengers, most of whom had been locked in the belowdecks.
Passeridae
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“If she comes out of there,” he said, “hard and snappy, putting us to windward of the boats, it’s likely there’ll be empty bunks in steerage and fo’c’sle.”
Chapter 17
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And the human voice, the voice of a god, issuing from the throat of the tiny, snow-white bird, had made Michael go back on his haunches, while, with eyes and nostrils, he quested the steerage for the human who had spoken.
CHAPTER XI
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Among the midshipmen who bunked, messed, and skylarked together in the steerage of the "Essex," was one lad whose name in later days was to be inscribed on the roll of the greatest naval heroes of history.
The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
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Our sails, wound up, lay without their use, and if at any time we bore but a Hollocke, or half forecourse, to guide her before the Sea, six and sometimes eight men, were not enough to hold the whip-staffe in the steerage, and the tiller below in the Gunner room; by which may be imagined the strength of the storm, in which the Sea swelled above the
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There was practically no wind, and the Elsinore, was just maintaining steerage way by means of intermittent fans of air from the north.
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This it did and we were able at last to pick up speed and regain steerage way.
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If he kept the helm down hard, he might gain a little steerage from the anchor and avoid the Curate.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Although Fingal barely had steerage way and despite the fact that she quickly reversed her engines, she collided with the dark sailing ship.
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The ship, which had been steam purposefully is now steaming slowly in circles, barely making steerage way.
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Keep in mind that during the loading process, the tanker has no steerage way and thus is totally dependent on the buoy for holding position.
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It gives him steerageway, the ability to stay on course, to steer away from reefs and shoals.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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However, it moved us along at 2.2 knots, giving us some steerage way, albeit on a course of 130 magnetic when we wanted to go 080 magnetic.
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Those in steerage tend to be forgotten, said Whitcomb, as do most people without money in the Edwardian era.
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Steerage passengers were given a fairly plain diet of salted meat, biscuits, soup rice, oatmeal and raisins.
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“Maintain bare steerageway to keep us in this area,” Tombstone said.
Joint Operations
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Half an hour later, returning, from setting the cabin aright, to the steerage for Kwaque to serve him with a bottle of beer,
CHAPTER X
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The Kilo submarine lingered ten miles away from the island, barely making steerageway through the silent ocean.
Arctic Fire
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A steerage passage I engaged on a ship called the Iron Duke
The Traveller All Over the World
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The lower deck, shining clean now, was thronged with steerage passengers.
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Number 1: “They are still rowdy in steerage sir, a bunch of Indians and Chinese think they deserve to be up here in the First Class cocktail lounge”
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With a whaleboat towing for steerage and as a precaution against back-draughts from the cliff, and taking advantage of a fan of breeze, he shook the Rattler full into it and glided by the big coral patch without warping.
THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
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In another five minutes we had steerage from the filled sail, and Arnold Bentham was at the steering sweep.
Chapter 19
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Dickens is especially convincing about the wretched conditions experienced by emigrants who travelled in steerage.
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In Titanic, virtually every Englishman was insufferable, while happy Irish fiddlers and dancers created a wonderful atmosphere in steerage.
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He flicked a look back at the seas, wanting steerageway on again.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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Besides, there was an equally good bunk all the way across the width of the steerage from the Chinaman's.
CHAPTER X
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Clean in galley, clean in steerage, clean in everything.
CHAPTER X
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Dorwan turned toward the end of the pier, watching as the vessel approached with bare steerageway.
Ordermaster
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It brought their bows head to wind and he had given up trying to avoid the rock and was using all his steerage to aim straight for it.
THE MAIN CAGES
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Cushing was able to orchestrate his disunionist grand strategy with the help of two key colleagues, each of whom would rise with his steerage to key positions within both Confederate circles and that of the elite inner circle of Scottish Rite Masonry in Charleston: Albert Pike and John C. Breckinridge.
Shadow of the Sentinel
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But only because I was flying "steerage" -- economy class.
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Some years later Navy regulations were changed to permit wardroom and steerage officers to voluntarily form their own wine mess.
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You can't get steerage way with a speedboat hull at 4 knots so they are allowed to go faster so that they can point them in the right direction.
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The yacht had no steerage and an unserviceable engine, and was pitching and rolling in mountainous seas.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ladies travelling first class were all rescued, but the women in steerage were not even issued with lifebelts.
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It is vital for the skipper to learn about his/her boat's steerage way.
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I was quite tired of eating the prepacked heat-and-eat meals that they served to the steerage passengers.
Messages to Mars
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By virtue of clothing alone, it was not at all difficult to tell which passengers were steerage, and which were first-class.
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Most of the emigrants traveled in steerage accommodations, between the upper deck and the cargo hold.
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If conditions get worse, slow down until you are making bare steerage way and hold your boat at an angle of 45° to the swells.
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We went through with enough speed to maintain steerage way, but not enough to create a displacement that would suck us onto one wall or the other.
