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  • Thumbnail for List of ship directions
    vessel, such as fore, aft, astern, aboard, or topside. Abaft (preposition): at or toward the stern of a ship, or further back from a location, e.g. "the...
    10 KB (968 words) - 05:03, 16 July 2024
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    spinnaker. Ketches are similar to a sloop, but there is a second shorter mast astern of the mainmast, but forward of the rudder post. The second mast is called...
    14 KB (1,770 words) - 06:26, 14 April 2024
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    For as in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim)... Wrestling promoter...
    16 KB (1,957 words) - 04:05, 17 April 2024
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    Rib cage (redirect from Asternal ribs)
    for extrinsic skeletal muscles of the neck, upper limbs, upper abdomen and back, and together with the overlying skin and associated fascia and muscles,...
    28 KB (3,474 words) - 21:49, 22 July 2024
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    propeller systems where the rotation of the propeller is reversed to provide astern movement, a waterjet will continue to pump normally while a deflector is...
    12 KB (1,540 words) - 08:52, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Tiger (1913)
    consisted of high-pressure ahead and astern turbines driving an outboard shaft and low-pressure ahead and astern turbines, housed in the same casing,...
    43 KB (5,883 words) - 14:39, 2 February 2024
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    and the Kowloon Bridge was effectively abandoned with her engine running astern, heading away from the Irish coast. A tugboat that tried to reach her had...
    6 KB (366 words) - 13:31, 17 July 2023
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    revolutionize submarine warfare, inventing the night convoy attack from astern by joining the flank escort line. He attacked two convoys at anchor 26 miles...
    22 KB (2,054 words) - 14:25, 3 July 2024
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    in astern, and this is particularly true of folding propellers; whereas the Brunton AutoProp and Darglow FeatherStream are equally effective astern as...
    4 KB (295 words) - 13:03, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Westland Whirlwind (fighter)
    short range of the escorts, including the Whirlwinds, the fighters turned back near Antwerp, with the bombers continuing on without escort. Ten Blenheims...
    40 KB (5,235 words) - 14:27, 8 April 2024
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    however, the U.S. Navy was large enough that damaged ships could be detached back home for repair without significantly hampering the fleet's operational capability...
    81 KB (9,909 words) - 11:35, 22 July 2024
  • into the astern turbine while the vessel is operating in the ahead mode. It is normally installed between the astern throttle valve and the astern elements...
    1 KB (152 words) - 23:40, 30 December 2023
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    propellers to a negative angle. The equivalent concept for a ship is called astern propulsion. A landing roll consists of touchdown, bringing the aircraft...
    24 KB (2,867 words) - 13:09, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sinking of the Titanic
    of the White Star Line's captains, ordered her engines to be put "full astern". The two ships avoided a collision by a distance of about 4 feet (1.2 m)...
    128 KB (16,997 words) - 06:11, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for LZ 104 (L 59)
    the surfaced German submarine UB-53 observed the airship approaching from astern. Her commanding officer, Oberleutnant zur See Robert Sprenger, reported...
    13 KB (1,586 words) - 21:03, 31 July 2023
  • two flags at the top of the ship) Abeam with dipped stern flag And now astern, the dipped stern flag and the house flag at the top of the mainmast K....
    2 KB (257 words) - 02:55, 6 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Japanese cruiser Maya
    of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise dropped a 500-pound (227 kg) bomb astern of Maya. The near miss caused no damage, but the wing of the Dauntless clipped...
    23 KB (2,551 words) - 14:46, 15 April 2024
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    iceberg passed, he saw a white fringe at the top, and only there. Viewed from astern, one side appeared to be white and the other black. It was higher than the...
    52 KB (7,173 words) - 19:18, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS King George V (41)
    rooms placed side by side and with each pair associated with a turbine room astern of them. The total heating surface of the boiler plants in King George V...
    34 KB (4,004 words) - 01:33, 2 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Olaf Tryggvason
    seen that as the fighting lessened he stood, still alive, on the high-deck astern on the Long Serpent, which had thirty-two rowing places. But when Eiríkr...
    28 KB (3,789 words) - 17:23, 13 June 2024
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