They cut their electric motors back, slowed to steerageway, and that's why they disappeared off the scopes. From Wordnik.com. [Red Storm Rising]
The Kilo submarine lingered ten miles away from the island, barely making steerageway through the silent ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Arctic Fire]
As the little brig felt the breeze and gathered steerageway, she was headed for the chase, bringing the wind on her starboard quarter. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Wellspring of Chaos]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Arctic Fire]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast] Reference
He had to brace himself to keep plunging on before he thought too much about it and lost steerageway. From Wordnik.com. [The Saint in Action]
He held her nose up to the open sea, allowing her only steerageway, the gale slithering off her flattened sail. From Wordnik.com. [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference
There was not more than a capful of wind; but once let the canvas fill, and the schooner would get steerageway. From Wordnik.com. [Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Depot Master] Reference
With her small area of exposed sail and with the wind buffeting her, she had halted and paid off, lacking steerageway. From Wordnik.com. [Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916] Reference
French Pete let go the main-sheet, lost steerageway as he rounded up alongside the motionless skiff, and dragged Joe out. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Dazzler] Reference
Its smoke-stacks were folded back for passing under the bridge, and its great paddlewheel scarcely moved except to get steerageway. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Woman] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Burned Bridges] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Man's Rock] Reference
Any vessel operating in a speed zone posted as "Idle Speed - No Wake" must operate at the minimum speed that allows the vessel to maintain headway and steerageway. From Wordnik.com. [Home] Reference
"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. From Wordnik.com. [Quaint Courtships] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell] Reference
There are times when the mind is lifted up by a master-emotion, arising one hardly knows how, nor whither leading; a feeling that takes charge of one, as a big wave is said to take charge of a boat when it destroys steerageway; an emotion so powerful that it does but batten on all which might be expected to clash with it. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
"an idle-speed, no-wake zone means a vessel must proceed at a speed no greater than what is required to maintain steerageway and headway. From Wordnik.com. [news | GS | http://www.gainesville.com] Reference
I can't get steerageway on her. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest] Reference
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