sternmost

How to use sternmost in a sentence

• They found and entered it, a small place, but richly furnished, with a carved crucifix screwed to its sternmost wall.

  Fair Margaret | H. Rider Haggard

• Early on the morning of the 24th he again came within hail of the sternmost of the French ships.

  How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves | W.H.G. Kingston

• The British seamen cheered and, opening fire from their big guns, were soon up to the sternmost junks.

  How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves | W.H.G. Kingston

• The viceroy pursued, and towards evening came up with the sternmost, having left his own fleet far behind.

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI | Robert Kerr

• The sternmost was luffing up with the intention of reaching the Constitution's quarter.

  Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 | James Barnes