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A skeg (or skegg or skag) is a sternward extension of the keel of boats and ships which have a rudder mounted on the centre line. The term also applies...

sheep aboard her, and our bodies also / Heavy with weeping, so winds from sternward / Bore us out onward with bellying canvas ..." (Canto I by Ezra Pound)...

with a "fixed" pivot point in the water, the blade moves sideways and sternwards through the water, so that the magnitude of the propulsion force developed...

resulting blind spot is located directly behind the array, most commonly sternwards. The term baffles is likely derived from a lesser used definition of the...

and mostly in the Moray Firth region of Scotland. skeg A downward or sternward projection from the keel in front of the rudder. Protects the rudder from...

nineteenth century (see below). The ship appeared to rotate about the pole sternwards, so nautically in reverse. Aratus, the Greek poet / historian living in...

allowing the player to slow the Manta's speed to a minimum and land on the sternward landing zone. After this, the pilot presumably enters the interior of...

(533 mm) torpedo tubes 2 external forward-facing torpedo tubes 3 external sternward-facing torpedo tubes 6 reload torpedoes 1 x 4-inch (102 mm) deck gun 3...

core/postural muscle strength. The footstretcher can also move bow-wards or sternwards, usually to accommodate the length of the rower's legs. Typically a coach...

consequence, Whipple, whose own bow had been bent around until it faced sternward, received Smith Thompson's undamaged bow and soon reentered active service...

Shovell's ships were still in range of the French, but found themselves sternwards to the French bows, so only a few guns on either side could be engaged...

taken out of drydock by February 2013, and some work was done on the sternwards fifth deck. As of December 2021[update], Polar Star was still moored at...