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There had to be enough canvass up to give us drive and steerage way but not enough to speed us along faster than the following waves.
Some years later Navy regulations were changed to permit wardroom and steerage officers to voluntarily form their own wine mess.
Most of the emigrants traveled in steerage accommodations, between the upper deck and the cargo hold.
He was left with no steerage in force seven gales and the situation worsened when all power and communications were lost.
The ladies travelling first class were all rescued, but the women in steerage were not even issued with lifebelts.
With the dodger up it sailed downwind at nearly a knot and a half, complete with steerage!
Her first passage cost twenty dollars and she and all the other immigrants on board travelled in steerage or third-class.
The overtaken boat should acknowledge, slow down to minimum steerage speed and move over to make room.
By virtue of clothing alone, it was not at all difficult to tell which passengers were steerage, and which were first-class.
In Titanic, virtually every Englishman was insufferable, while happy Irish fiddlers and dancers created a wonderful atmosphere in steerage.
Once the ship has stopped, it is at the mercy of wind and current until steerage way can be restored.
After we had lost all steerage way we were swept bodily southwards by the inblowing winds towards the cyclone's centre.
Keep in mind that during the loading process, the tanker has no steerage way and thus is totally dependent on the buoy for holding position.
Although Fingal barely had steerage way and despite the fact that she quickly reversed her engines, she collided with the dark sailing ship.
The engine must be kept ticking over sufficiently to provide enough power to overcome prop drag and to provide steerage way when coming about.
This it did and we were able at last to pick up speed and regain steerage way.
You can't get steerage way with a speedboat hull at 4 knots so they are allowed to go faster so that they can point them in the right direction.
However, it moved us along at 2.2 knots, giving us some steerage way, albeit on a course of 130 magnetic when we wanted to go 080 magnetic.
The ship, which had been steam purposefully is now steaming slowly in circles, barely making steerage way.
There was practically no wind, and the Elsinore, was just maintaining steerage way by means of intermittent fans of air from the north.
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I was at last convinced that they had no friends among the steerage passengers.
Captain Oxnard gave Lily a state-room, and the two boys were berthed in the steerage.
The sea anchor which Russ had rigged provided the necessary drag and steerage way, and the boat's head was kept to the waves.
There is also a suggestion of the Orient in the joss house and opium den of the Chinese in the steerage.
Cabin and steerage passengers hail from many parts of earth.
Louisa mentioned the cost of a steerage passage to Australia for a man and his wife.
On ships at sea he had always been in the forecastle, the steerage, or in the black depths of the coal-hold, passing coal.
You tell me where your exclusive circles would be if the first Astor hadn't had the money to pay for his steerage passage over?
She was the one you and my daughter used to pamper, in the steerage.
The jolt jerks up its passengers in the semidetached steerage.
The steerage stewardess was indignant with him, the doctor regarded him with suspicion.
There they were joined by Rae and some of the other steerage passengers.
Probably some steerage passengers have come on the cabin deck.
If we can h'ist the jib we can get some steerage way on her, maybe.
There were only two other steerage passengers and they were women.
I had been swept against the galley and around the steerage companion-way from the weather side into the lee scuppers.
Remained the steerage, just for'ard of the cabin, separated from it by a stout bulkhead and entered by a companionway on the main deck.
The yards were squared, and the Harpy soon had steerage way.
One of the hunters, a tall, loose-jointed chap named Henderson, was going aft at the time from the steerage to the cabin.
There are signs of rampant bad temper in the steerage, and the gossip is going around that Smoke and Henderson have had a fight.
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