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List of ship directions (redirect from Astern)definitions for terms applying to spatial orientation in a marine environment or location on a vessel, such as fore, aft, astern, aboard, or topside. Abaft...10 KB (968 words) - 05:03, 16 July 2024
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) - 09:11, 29 October 2024
is easier for a short-handed crew to manage. A yawl is similar to a ketch, with a shorter mizzen mast carried astern the rudderpost more for balancing...14 KB (1,770 words) - 06:26, 14 April 2024
the rotation of the propeller is reversed to provide astern movement, a waterjet will continue to pump normally while a deflector is lowered into the jetstream...12 KB (1,540 words) - 08:52, 9 April 2024
abandoned with her engine running astern, heading away from the Irish coast. A tugboat that tried to reach her had to abandon the salvage attempt after...6 KB (366 words) - 13:31, 17 July 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)... The sourcing of...16 KB (1,947 words) - 14:50, 27 October 2024
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
Cologne on 12 August 1941; owing to the relatively short range of the escorts, including the Whirlwinds, the fighters turned back near Antwerp, with the bombers...40 KB (5,238 words) - 04:35, 8 November 2024- 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
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- Operation Mincemeat (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)the body into the water. Jewell read Psalm 39 and ordered the engines to full astern; the wash from the screws pushed the corpse toward the shore. The canister...63 KB (8,043 words) - 20:45, 29 October 2024
famous eleventh patrol, he continued to revolutionize submarine warfare, inventing the night convoy attack from astern by joining the flank escort line....22 KB (2,062 words) - 23:06, 20 October 2024
range, so that he had to contend with gunfire from the four battleships astern as well as Beatty's five remaining battlecruisers to starboard. But he knew...152 KB (20,603 words) - 14:56, 6 November 2024
could now cross astern and reunite, ordered his ships to change course, but Sir Charles Thompson, leading the rear division, failed to comply. The following...66 KB (6,785 words) - 11:40, 9 November 2024
among others, were meant to make pilots mentally ready to die. The tokkōtai pilot's manual also explained how a pilot may turn back if he could not locate...81 KB (9,941 words) - 05:03, 28 October 2024
gears. An astern turbine was incorporated in the exhaust casing of the low-pressure turbine, and a cruising turbine was coupled directly to the high-pressure...34 KB (3,994 words) - 22:13, 5 November 2024
engines to be put "full astern". The two ships avoided a collision by a distance of about 4 feet (1.2 m). The incident, as well as a subsequent stop to offload...128 KB (17,003 words) - 18:31, 31 October 2024- opened prior to any maneuvering situation, in order to permit the astern turbine to be used to bring the vessel to a rapid stop or to back down. Any similar...1 KB (152 words) - 23:40, 30 December 2023
propellers to a negative angle. The equivalent concept for a ship is called astern propulsion. A landing roll consists of touchdown, bringing the aircraft to taxi...26 KB (2,993 words) - 04:23, 8 September 2024
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 foredeck...53 KB (7,275 words) - 04:56, 23 September 2024
- second astern, but was separated from her by the close order of the French line astern of the Jacobin [see Howe, Richard, Earl]. Harvey attempted to force
- into a thousand gems. Thomas Noel, A Thames Voyage. Like watermen who look astern while they row the boat ahead. Plutarch, Whether 'twas rightfully said,
- clear and it was often a ticklish work for the coxswains to decide whether to go ahead or astern of a train of barges catering across the river. There was