bluff bow

So did the swelling gurgle of water at her bluff bow.

She has a rectangular hull section, bluff bow and a counter hung rudder.

The dugout hit the water with a splash; the bluff bow porpoised and the vessel skewed sideways.

She happened to be a ship-rigged sailing vessel with a plain bluff bow and a full stern with windows.

It is identified by its sharp, clean entry, bluff bow, marked tumble-home and raked transom.

With her flat bottom, straight sides, bluff bow and almost vertical stern, a Thames barge could use every possible inch for cargo.

At noon a terrible squall sent the ship scudding south like a toy, the bluff bow battering the sea to froth.

Two of them were large, broad-beamed merchantman types, with high castles fore and aft and bluff bows.

The Aetna class had "wooden hulls, straight vertical sides and a flat bottom with a very bluff bow and stern.

Sunset came: a wan display of dove-brown and umber, and with it a cool breeze which sent the water chuckling around the bluff bow.

It was a massive round-bilged keel ship with a bluff bow and stern, the latter relatively high, and with a gallery.

Captain Land had a "reputation for taciturnity," and had spent many years in slower ships with bluff bows, such as the Globe).

The monitors had a box-like hull, with very bluff bow and stern, and were fitted with anti-torpedo bulges.

The APC's bluff bow slid out of the water, bulldozing a wedge of root-bound mud ahead of it.

Sluggishly, the SUNCHASER turned its bluff bow toward the distant wreck.

The Calliope was going faster now and her bluff bows were thumping into the waves, and each thump sent a tremor through her tons of oak timbers.

The wind where Spray ran was not the best or the strongest, but where the other ship smashed the swells into mountains of foam with its bluff bow, it could not have blown better.

They later proved their worth during the invasion of Algeria in 1942, but their bluff bows made for inadequate speed and pointed up the need for an all-new design incorporating a sleeker hull.

They had strongly built hulls with a bluff bow, were steered by a tiller, and were designed to work in shallow waters, so that they could be used on the inland waterways connected to the Humber.

As the daily parade of giant container ships and tankers negotiates the twisting inner channels of New York Harbor, the waves pushed by the bluff bows of the computer-guided vessels wash through the rotting oak ribs of a ghost fleet.

"We're gaining on him," Chase said, nodding toward the distant Revenant which was evidently having as hard a time as the Pucelle, for she was shattering the seas with her bluff bow and smothering her hull in spray as she pushed as near northward as her helmsman could manage.

Characteristically these boats had bluff bows, crew's quarters with table and cooking stove in the focsle, and a single mast with derrick in front of the large hold, aft of which the funnel and ship's wheel stood above the engine room while the captain had a small cabin in the stern.

We could hear, at monotonously regular intervals, the flat explosive clap of sound as the bluff bows of the trawler crashed into the troughs of the steep-sided waves marching steadily eastwards under the goad of that bitter wind born on the immensity of the Greenland icecap, all of seven hundred miles away.