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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
of sail, was the first to come up to the rearmost French ship, which she attacked severely, and two other ships dropped astern to her support. The action...12 KB (716 words) - 14:42, 14 May 2024
attempted to drop astern to rake Unicorn's stern, but good handling by Unicorn foiled the attempt. Unicorn again came alongside and continued to fire upon...12 KB (1,344 words) - 14:31, 7 May 2024
Then Flora lost her mainmast and was forced to drop astern. With Flora out of action, Pellew ordered Arethusa to close with the corvette. Arethusa's carronades...22 KB (2,679 words) - 13:02, 30 March 2024
sighted and started to chase a French privateer ship. By 4p.m. Rosario was within gunshot of her quarry when Rosario had to drop astern having lost her fore...15 KB (1,735 words) - 12:22, 2 November 2023- the fun started. The first ship to be torpedoed was one of the Silver Line, which was hit amidships and dropped astern...On the next night, about the same...24 KB (2,871 words) - 20:38, 5 August 2023
USS Big Horn (AO-45) (category Ships transferred from the United States Navy to the United States Coast Guard)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 ship...33 KB (4,158 words) - 12:51, 20 May 2024
engines on full astern and this helped slow the ship's drift. At 7:00 pm, the captain shut down the engines so that the Pacific could try to attach another...11 KB (1,140 words) - 14:32, 6 October 2023
prevalent than winds from astern (that is, if you never violate the Pythagorean maxim)... Wrestling promoter Vince McMahon is known to be fond of flatulence...16 KB (1,957 words) - 04:05, 17 April 2024
U-381 as the convoy changed course 40 degrees to port to confuse the U-boats. While Celandine dropped astern to screen Stockport rescuing survivors from Empire...21 KB (1,424 words) - 08:33, 17 March 2024
rapid depth charges explode in the distance astern. She continued evasive action that morning, then returned to the general area of the attack shortly after...23 KB (2,767 words) - 04:15, 26 May 2024
starboard midsection, and then continued to scrape along the side of the Neches further aft. Orleck dropped astern, leaving her port anchor on the tank deck...11 KB (1,279 words) - 05:13, 14 January 2024
(Fairey or Hawker) and an early 1939 plan to build 800 of them at the Castle Bromwich shadow factory was dropped in favour of Spitfire production; instead...40 KB (5,235 words) - 14:27, 8 April 2024
Seamanship (category Articles to be expanded from February 2022)astern which a conventional rudder cannot, and the ship can be steered fully under control to a standstill switching between ahead and astern mode to...27 KB (3,285 words) - 07:21, 26 March 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
anti-aircraft guns. Although the kamikaze was hit by gunfire, it managed to drop a bomb that detonated on the flight deck, making a crater 3 m (10 ft) long...81 KB (9,880 words) - 03:24, 13 May 2024
Ronald Hopwood (category Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y)down in his ship to the sea; ... As the wave rises clear to the hawse pipe, Washes aft, and is lost in the wake, So shall ye drop astern all unheeded, Such...27 KB (2,925 words) - 12:09, 9 March 2024- version, which gives the boat's course (Mull was astern, Rum on the port, Eigg on the starboard bow) seems to describe Charles's flight from the mainland,...19 KB (2,452 words) - 20:53, 18 May 2024
- Guard cutter USCGC Legare (WSC-144), which was about 2,000 yards (1,830 m) astern of her — the U.S. Navy submarine USS Mackerel (SS-204) fired two torpedoes...241 KB (32,056 words) - 21:38, 23 May 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
- that lad 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
- 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