How To Use steerageway In A Sentence
- 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
- 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
- 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
- They cut their electric motors back, slowed to steerageway, and that's why they disappeared off the scopes. Red Storm Rising
- “Maintain station with bare steerageway, aye, sir,” the Coast Guard Officer repeated. Joint Operations
- 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
- TheS-570 was making just enough turns for steerageway. Pressure Point
- It gives him steerageway, the ability to stay on course, to steer away from reefs and shoals. LET NOT THE DEEP
- “Maintain bare steerageway to keep us in this area,” Tombstone said. Joint Operations
- The Kilo submarine lingered ten miles away from the island, barely making steerageway through the silent ocean. Arctic Fire
