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battle, but Nelson ordered 'Neptune, take in your studding-sails and drop astern. I shall break the line myself.' Neptune went into action with her band...24 KB (2,778 words) - 14:44, 7 August 2023
rearmost French ship, which she attacked severely, and two other ships dropped astern to her support. The action became general when three more British ships...12 KB (716 words) - 14:42, 14 May 2024
an intense, 35-minutes long engagement ensued. Tribune attempted to drop astern to rake Unicorn's stern, but good handling by Unicorn foiled the attempt...12 KB (1,344 words) - 14:31, 7 May 2024
to the hawse pipe, Washes aft, and is lost in the wake, So shall ye drop astern all unheeded, Such time as the law ye forsake. Two stanzas are often...27 KB (2,925 words) - 12:09, 9 March 2024
severe damage being done. Then Flora lost her mainmast and was forced to drop astern. With Flora out of action, Pellew ordered Arethusa to close with the...22 KB (2,679 words) - 13:02, 30 March 2024- be torpedoed was one of the Silver Line, which was hit amidships and dropped astern...On the next night, about the same time, 2230 hours, the enemy struck...24 KB (2,871 words) - 20:38, 5 August 2023
convoy and dropped astern 25 nautical miles (46 kilometres), proceeding as straggler-with-escorts, although the escorts remained far enough astern so that...20 KB (3,046 words) - 03:34, 19 June 2023
material were got to the ship packing them in a canister which was dropped astern of Bon Jour by a light aircraft. Only one canister failed to reach the...33 KB (4,158 words) - 12:51, 20 May 2024
By 4p.m. Rosario was within gunshot of her quarry when Rosario had to drop astern having lost her fore top-mast because of the amount of sail that she...15 KB (1,735 words) - 12:22, 2 November 2023
but then the towline parted. Captain Bardari turned his engines on full astern and this helped slow the ship's drift. At 7:00 pm, the captain shut down...11 KB (1,140 words) - 14:32, 6 October 2023
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
going astern. But with the Kort Nozzle, the ahead and astern thrust is the same. Other advantages of the nozzle are the ship can be steered astern which...27 KB (3,285 words) - 07:21, 26 March 2024
1939 plan to build 800 of them at the Castle Bromwich shadow factory was dropped in favour of Spitfire production; instead a further 200 would be built...40 KB (5,235 words) - 14:27, 8 April 2024
continued to scrape along the side of the Neches further aft. Orleck dropped astern, leaving her port anchor on the tank deck of the Neches. There were...11 KB (1,279 words) - 05:13, 14 January 2024
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
enemy bomber. At 1114, a stick of four bombs fell approximately 1,500 yards astern, straddling the wake of the destroyer. The next day, the two carrier forces...10 KB (969 words) - 22:20, 9 June 2023- Rosario lost her topmast due to the amount of sail she was carrying, and dropped astern. By 8pm Plantagenet caught up with the privateer, which struck. The...7 KB (678 words) - 16:39, 23 January 2024
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 (2,934 words) - 04:09, 18 May 2024
escort three stragglers from Bermuda to New York City. One of them dropped astern on 20 December 1942 and was not seen again, but Barnegat continued on...30 KB (4,159 words) - 10:15, 14 May 2023- Convoy HX 55 for Liverpool. On the night of 15/16 July, West Cobalt dropped astern of the convoy and was last sighted at 01:00 by British merchant ship...17 KB (1,683 words) - 09:22, 20 March 2024
- drop astern (third-person singular simple present drops astern, present participle dropping astern, simple past and past participle dropped astern) (nautical
- stern-guns, which, disabling us in our sails and rigging, occasioned us to drop astern; at 8-40, being again within gun-shot, he hoisted a light, and opened
- be I? Merry of soul he sailed on a day Over the sea to Skye. Mull was astern, Rum on the port, Eigg on the starboard bow; Glory of youth glowed in
- improved oil tanker. The 2700-ton Gluckauf, is the first ship to place engines astern. And oil could be pumped directly into the ships tanks instead of shipped