steerageway

Now she was moving past the beach, about two miles off shore and barely maintaining steerageway.

He'd been forced to reduce speed for safety purposes until he was just making bare steerageway.

"I want the convoy ships to stop and circle right where they are, with just enough speed for steerageway.

Abruptly the sloop grew sluggish in the waves, losing steerageway.

We had slowed to two knots, bare steerageway.

During the night, the Tabberer lost steerageway and could not fight her way out of the deep troughs.

The breeze had been light all day and remained so; we had no more than steerageway, but the air was refreshingly cool.

Engines stopped and steerageway was lost.

If you don't have any steerageway, you're not going forward, you can't calibrate it.

They cut their electric motors back, slowed to steerageway, and that's why they disappeared off the scopes.

Keep it down to bare steerageway."

The Kilo submarine lingered ten miles away from the island, barely making steerageway through the silent ocean.

Our tiny bit of sail, heavy and dark with rain, bellied out, and the launch gathered steerageway once more.

Even though the ship had throttled back her engines to just enough power to claw a steerageway through the seas, the deck pitched.

Twin rudders were hung for steerageway.

Dorwan turned toward the end of the pier, watching as the vessel approached with bare steerageway.

If would give them steerageway but not the speed they so desperately wanted if they were to outrun the brewing danger.

The frigate slowed to five knots inside a minute, and Morris ordered a speed of three knots, bare steerageway.

Sorgi's ships were supposed to provide steerageway by towing the boom, and that was where the problems cropped up.

He'd given the order to reduce speed to the bare minimum, just maintain steerageway and support the hydrophone array they were towing astern.

Bare steerageway, to maximize hydrophone signal-to-noise sensitivity.

At this time the Bounty was under courses and topsails; the breeze was of the lightest, and the vessel had little more than steerageway.

The Laura B. sprang forward like an unleashed puppy, picked up steerageway and headed out behind Monhegan to get some lee.

She was out beyond the point before the schooner cleared it and came over slowly on a tack, for there was barely enough wind to give her steerageway.

The Seastag moved slowly northward, then hove to off the southern breakwater, waiting, the paddle wheels turning just enough to keep the ship with bare steerageway.