rudder-post

The rudder-post is placed in the middle of this well, and divides it into two parts, one for the propeller and one for the rudder.

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

The extreme beam is 26-1/2 feet at 40 feet from the rudder-post running aft to about 19 feet at taffrail; forward, it decreases about 20 inches when abreast of mast, thence runs away sharp to about four feet at the bow.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

Close by the rudder-post stood Cigole, looking with all the rest at the gathering storm.

Cord and Creese James De Mille

This effect is greatly increased when the clearance given to the screw in the dead-wood is too small; for the reduction of the hydrostatic pressure at the stern-post, and the increase of it at the rudder-post, on each passage of the blades, must be followed by concussion.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

To an extension of the rudder-post is secured an arm, F, which is connected with the arm, G, of the controlling valve.

Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures Various

The _John Durston_ had a propeller built in with her rudder, and driven with a vertical shaft, extending down through a cylindrical rudder-post, but was unfit for service.

History of Steam on the Erie Canal Anonymous

Upon this shaft, half-way between the pillow blocks which support it, there is a worm which engages a toothed sector, D, on the rudder-post, E.

Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures Various

It had been a store-room (as I guessed), and judging by the reek that reached me above the stench of the bilge, had of late held rancid fat of some sort; just abaft the mizzen it lay and hard against the massy rudder-post, for I could hear the creek and groan of the pintles as the rudder swung to the tide.

Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

He rowed in under the shadowy counter, bumping about the rudder-post.

Never-Fail Blake Arthur Stringer 1912

A stake was driven in the sand of the lake bottom, at either side the stern, and the rudder-post lashed between.

Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Hulbert Footner 1911