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  • Thumbnail for Seamanship
    maximum efficiency when going ahead, it produces far less thrust when going astern. But with the Kort Nozzle, the ahead and astern thrust is the same. Other...
    27 KB (3,285 words) - 02:46, 23 June 2024
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    curved metal plates that surround the propeller enabling the boat to go ahead, go astern or remain stationary without any change of engine speed or reversing...
    6 KB (614 words) - 06:48, 12 November 2022
  • one's money can go further than it can actually afford. goreng – (From Malay) To brainwash. gostan – (From English go astern) To reverse or go in the backward...
    102 KB (12,759 words) - 09:41, 18 July 2024
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    engines astern; he acted only after he had received that permission. At the last moment, Tryon shouted across to Markham, "Go astern! Go astern!" By the...
    47 KB (7,005 words) - 14:41, 5 April 2024
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    weight by shortening the propeller shafts. Another was the ability to go astern at full power without needing a separate reverse turbine to do so, simply...
    24 KB (2,949 words) - 09:20, 31 May 2024
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    vibration and weight by shortening the propeller shafts. Also, the ship could go astern at full power simply by reversing the electrical polarity of the motors...
    58 KB (7,602 words) - 16:23, 27 July 2024
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    weight by shortening the propeller shafts. Another was the ability to go astern at full power without needing a separate reverse turbine to do so, simply...
    38 KB (5,067 words) - 19:57, 1 May 2024
  • 1016. During sea trials, 1016 exhibited severe vibration problems while going astern. The Greek owner refused to take delivery and the vessel was subject...
    17 KB (1,589 words) - 09:18, 18 July 2024
  • vehicle, probably from the nautical term "go astern" (mostly used in Terengganu, Kelantan, Kedah and Penang) or "go stunt". Sometimes also expressed as "gostan...
    45 KB (5,601 words) - 13:17, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS La Bourgogne
    and be ready, if necessary, immediately to further reduce speed or even go astern. The Supreme Court therefore upheld Judge Townsend's ruling that CGT had...
    53 KB (6,117 words) - 03:36, 18 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Titanic navigation bridge
    Using the order transmitters, he also ordered the engine room to go astern: "Full astern". However, after the sinking, the chief engineer stated that the...
    36 KB (4,433 words) - 12:01, 21 July 2024
  • vehicles. A contraction of the term "go astern" (Mostly used in states of Penang and Kedah). To reverse, to go backwards Share Market Stock Market Remisier...
    11 KB (804 words) - 04:32, 22 May 2024
  • and go astern, if necessary. Both in safety and in doubt Always keep a good look-out; In danger, with no room to turn, Ease her, Stop her, Go astern. — Gray...
    6 KB (711 words) - 16:19, 13 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for HMS Gabbard (D47)
    harbour. To avoid a collision, Gabbard went astern at speed. She then went ahead but was still going astern when she hit a ship on the stocks. The depth...
    7 KB (556 words) - 15:45, 16 February 2022
  • Brickenstein estimated she was. Shortly before grounding, an attempt was made to go astern but this failed when the stress fractured the ship's propeller. Driven...
    10 KB (1,061 words) - 17:25, 20 June 2024
  • navigation light. As "Voyager" was doing her fishtail to get into position to go astern of "Melbourne", the officer of the watch likely saw this red light and...
    60 KB (7,504 words) - 16:39, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Rochambeau
    turbine amidships that drove the middle screw. Otaki and Laurentic could go astern, slowly forward or manoeuvre using only their piston engines. For higher...
    22 KB (1,987 words) - 10:41, 7 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Polyphemus (1881)
    retracted into the hull, that allowed the ship to be manoeuvrable when going astern. It also slightly reduced the diameter of the turning circle (by 12 per...
    12 KB (1,290 words) - 10:20, 16 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for HMS Humber (1914)
    knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) while going ahead, but it was also found that it was impossible to manoeuvre the ship while going astern. This was because the shallow...
    20 KB (2,601 words) - 08:10, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Transylvania (1914)
    second torpedo was seen coming straight for Matsu, which saved herself by going astern at full speed. The torpedo hit Transylvania instead, which sank immediately...
    6 KB (520 words) - 11:04, 7 March 2024
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