Re'turned to the helm, he jabbed the rigging knife into Callinde's sternpost. From Wordnik.com. [Stormwarden]
The sternpost is bent, and some 20 feet of her keel partially gone; propeller and shaft uninjured. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
When the crewmen ended their forward pull, the sternpost was hard against the seawall near the inn's door. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
They leaned into beaching tackle made fast to the sternpost and dragged the trireme another pace up the ramp. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Her sternpost curved up and forward to assume the same angle as her narrow stem, giving her the very image of agility. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Unconquered]
Here he crammed oakum, brimstone and other combustibles between the rudder and the sternpost, and set the whole on fire. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
The gilt sternpost, curved high over the steering oar fixtures in the form of a swan's neck and head, also bespoke wealth. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
He led her by the bound wrists, she stumbling in her robes, about the raft and tied the tether on her hands to the sternpost. of the canoe. From Wordnik.com. [Explorers Of Gor]
A stouter, gray-bearded version of the officers who'd jumped into the sea was shouting commands from the curved sternpost: almost certainly the captain. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
The ‘Endurance’ groaned and quivered as her starboard quarter was forced against the floe, twisting the sternpost and starting the heads and ends of planking. From Wordnik.com. [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference
Communication by sea was improved by the Lateen sail, in use in Italy in the 11th century, and by the sternpost rudder compass and the astrolabe, about which Europeans learned from the Muslims. From Wordnik.com. [3. Western Europe and the Age of the Cathedrals, 1000-1300] Reference
There was the faintest scraping on the port side, as if the hull had run against the edge of a sandbar or a rock, and then another cannon shell exploded into the water less than five rods directly aft of the sternpost. From Wordnik.com. [Wellspring of Chaos]
"She's all speed and grace from cutwater to sternpost.". From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain at War] Reference
One shell lodged in her sternpost, but failed to explode. From Wordnik.com. [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
It hit her sternpost, smashed her rudder and propellers, and tore a great hole in her run. From Wordnik.com. [The World Peril of 1910] Reference
In another house was the sternpost of a vessel, probably part of a wreck driven across from the coast of Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold] Reference
Bertric, and he went quickly aft to the sternpost and rested his hand on it for a moment, still watching the ship. From Wordnik.com. [A Sea Queen's Sailing] Reference
An ironclad had sunk a wooden ship, but except the shot that remained to them unexploded in their sternpost to tell. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of a naval life : including the cruises of the Confederate States steamers, "Sumter" and "Alabama",] Reference
The ship's in splendid condition; there's next to nothing wrong with her but the garboard streak and the sternpost. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrecker] Reference
The sternpost recovered from the wreckage is, I am informed, included among the Laperouse relics preserved at Paris. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders] Reference
And as he went, one of that ghostly crew went also, and stood as he stood, with outstretched arm set on the dim sternpost. From Wordnik.com. [A Sea Queen's Sailing] Reference
Henry George was a sailor; every part of a sailing ship was to him familiar -- from bilge - water to pennant, from bowsprit to sternpost. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers] Reference
Inventions include: paper (105 CE), sternpost rudder on ships, water mill, wheelbarrow, furrowed cultivation Show map for Silk Road trade. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Later, as we retraced our steps, were the stem and sternpost gone: you saw two strong wooden walls, between which the road took its course. From Wordnik.com. [O. T. a Danish Romance] Reference
It was part of the sternpost of a boat, and on it, or rather on the piece of wood attached to it, was the word "Archangel," painted in strange, quaint lettering. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain of the Polestar] Reference
The galleon "Santiago" has the same measurements of keel, floor, over all, depth of hold, extreme breadth, and sternpost transom, and the same space between decks. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 18 of 55 1617-1620 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Here I made a start by laying out, full-size, in chalk, upon the after-deck, an accurate outline of the keel, stem, and sternpost, which greatly facilitated my work. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn] Reference
But though Gerda's face was pale, and her eyes wide with the terror of the wreck, she never screamed or let go her hold of the sternpost to which she had been clinging. From Wordnik.com. [A Sea Queen's Sailing] Reference
Only a vestige of the sternpost of. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
"I'm afraid I'll shake the sternpost out of her.". From Wordnik.com. [The Wrecker] Reference
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