sternway

Then the ship would become unmanageable and drift away, with the possibility of getting excessive sternway on her and so damaging rudder or propeller, the

South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917

The mass of iron fell half in – board upon the now stayed boat, and gave her sternway, with a splintered plank.

For the term of his natural life

With the anchor broken out Hotspur gathered momentary sternway.

Hornblower And The Hotspur

Squaring her head-yards, the brig dropped her mainsail, braced her cross jack-yard sharp aback, put her helm a-weather and got sternway, while her after sails and helm kept her to the wind.

The Mutineers

Unconcernedly he made his way along the sternway and into the now deserted quarters of the fighters.

Galactic Patrol

Now the Baliol shell had made sternway sufficient for the man in the skiff to seize the rudder.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920

But before sternway could be got on the boat, the infuriated monster made a sudden turn, dashed upon and stove it into fragments.

The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family

In order to enable the vessel to turn speedily, she is fitted with the sternway rudder of

Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887

Elsinore was up in the eye of the wind, and making sternway, I found that by putting the wheel sharply over, one way or the other, I could swing her bow off.

Chapter 47

Though his vessel had been headed steadily northeast for more than thirty hours, the observation showed that she had made twenty-eight miles sternway to the southwest.

The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story