“Some years later Navy regulations were changed to permit wardroom and steerage officers to voluntarily form their own wine mess.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Lloyd the slaughter-man arrived, and I very particularly pointed out that it was the steer in the paddock he should shoot, not either of the heifers.”

“And when the squat steersman again stood up McKay went after him roughshod.”

“If the steersman pushed the helm away from him, the rudder-blade would turn its inner side forward and the ship would swung to port.”

“Each team comprises 18 paddlers, one drummer, one steersman and one flag-catcher.”

“Lloyd the slaughter-man arrived, and I very particularly pointed out that it was the steer in the paddock he should shoot, not either of the heifers.”

“Lloyd the slaughter-man arrived, and I very particularly pointed out that it was the steer in the paddock he should shoot, not either of the heifers.”

“Some profit went to the boat, some went to the harpooner, some to the boat steerer and the rest to the crew.”

“Being a control freak, I leapt on as the steerer with Heather as the stoker.”

“This meant that club stalwart David Harrison rode with sighted Mark Johnson, a work colleague he recently recruited as a steerer.”

“Soon, all but the steersmen and watchmen were asleep, and the dark passage of the night slipped by, quiet, watchful, and mysterious.”

“They are not supreme, they are steersmen only, bound to obey unconditionally the captain's orders.”

“But this song came from neither of the weatherworn steersmen, nor from the stolid members of their half-breed crew.”