Sternway

Elsinore was up in the eye of the wind, and making sternway, I found that by putting the wheel sharply over, one way or the other, I could swing her bow off. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then the ship would become unmanageable and drift away, with the possibility of getting excessive sternway on her and so damaging rudder or propeller, the ❋ Unknown (2006)

The mass of iron fell half in – board upon the now stayed boat, and gave her sternway, with a splintered plank. ❋ Unknown (2004)

With the anchor broken out Hotspur gathered momentary sternway. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1962)

But before sternway could be got on the boat, the infuriated monster made a sudden turn, dashed upon and stove it into fragments. ❋ A. R. [Illustrator] Waud (N/A)

In order to enable the vessel to turn speedily, she is fitted with the sternway rudder of ❋ Various (N/A)

Squaring her head-yards, the brig dropped her mainsail, braced her cross jack-yard sharp aback, put her helm a-weather and got sternway, while her after sails and helm kept her to the wind. ❋ Charles Boardman Hawes (N/A)

Unconcernedly he made his way along the sternway and into the now deserted quarters of the fighters. ❋ Smith, E. E. (1950)

Now the Baliol shell had made sternway sufficient for the man in the skiff to seize the rudder. ❋ Various (N/A)

Though his vessel had been headed steadily northeast for more than thirty hours, the observation showed that she had made twenty-eight miles sternway to the southwest. ❋ Various (1915)

It saved him; for a bell clanged in the engine-room, and the tug began to make sternway. ❋ Lawrence Perry (1914)

Ha! It was drifting forward, warning me just in time that the ship had gathered sternway. ❋ Unknown (1911)

Suddenly, glancing up at the dim cloud of sails above, I saw that we were aback and making sternway. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)

_Elsinore_ was up in the eye of the wind, and making sternway, I found that by putting the wheel sharply over, one way or the other, I could swing her bow off. ❋ Jack London (1896)

The clean-lined brig had sternway equal to the best speed of the boats, and now head-sails were run up, and she paid off from the shore. ❋ Morgan Robertson (1888)