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How to use steerageway in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word steerageway? Here are some examples.

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The Canada Senator's rescue boat should have been launched once the vessel slowed down to bare steerageway.
The tugboats, from six up in number, merely influence the ship until she gets steerageway, most of the energy coming from the ship's engines.
If you don't have any steerageway, you're not going forward, you can't calibrate it.
As a result, the vessel lost steerageway, deviated off course and struck 28 pleasure craft berthed in the adjacent marina before running aground.
When both tug and tow were heading downstream the master used a minimum throttle in order to maintain bare steerageway as he followed the south bank of the river toward the south draw of the bridge.
Examples from Classical Literature
Thus it lost headway sufficiently so that the seas caused it to drift back, without its coming about or losing all steerageway.
As the other approached, Harry shut off the power of the engines, checking them to little more than steerageway.
He held her nose up to the open sea, allowing her only steerageway, the gale slithering off her flattened sail.
I rigged up a sail out of the oar and the canvas spray shield, but there wa'n't wind enough to give us steerageway.
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