sternway

How to use sternway in a sentence

• Suddenly, glancing up at the dim cloud of sails above, I saw that we were aback and making sternway.

  Richard Carvel, Complete | Winston Churchill

• When sufficient sternway had been gathered the engines were put to full speed ahead to check her.

  The Blocking of Zeebrugge | Alfred F. B. Carpenter

• As far as could be seen, there was now nothing for'ard to prevent the submarine gathering sternway.

  A Sub and a Submarine | Percy F. Westerman

• He stopped his ship, and then backed water, making sternway to the Hartford, so as to stop her also.

  Hero Tales From American History | Henry Cabot Lodge, and Theodore Roosevelt

• The chief asks for the engines to be stopped; sternway is putting purchase on the binding pressure of the rudder.

  Merchantmen-at-Arms | David W. Bone