heaving-to

I can understand why shipmasters, with a favouring slant of wind, have left sailors, fallen overboard, to drown without heaving-to to lower a boat.

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Once, an English ship, scudding in a storm, tried to stand by them, heaving-to pluckily under their lee.

Falk, by Joseph Conrad 2004

Hotspur lay in the Iroise, and the victualler was heaving-to close alongside, to begin again the toilsome labour of transferring stores.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

They were heaving-to, and a moment later he saw a boat lowered from the Dutch frigate and pull to the Spanish one.

Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

Many ships, by not heaving-to at all, or not doing so in time, the night previous to making the reef, drift too far to the northward during the night, miss the passage they were endeavouring to make, and are compelled to run along the reef in search of another; for there is no getting back to the southward against wind and current.

Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson

English ship, scudding in a storm, tried to stand by them, heaving-to pluckily under their lee.

Falk; Amy Foster; To-Morrow 1922

I can understand why shipmasters, with a favouring slant of wind, have left sailors, fallen overboard, to drown without heaving-to to lower a boat.

Chapter 37 1914

"No heaving-to for this one, eh, Tim?" yelled Leary; and putting his wheel up, and feeling the _Ligonier_ beginning to pay off and the anchor to drag, he gave the word to slip the cable.

Sonnie-Boy's People 1912

Once, an English ship, scudding in a storm, tried to stand by them, heaving-to pluckily under their lee.

Falk; Amy Foster; To-Morrow 1903

I can understand why shipmasters, with a favouring slant of wind, have left sailors, fallen overboard, to drown without heaving-to to lower a boat.

The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896