Sentence examples for astern as from inspiring English sources

The goodbye was signaled by three short, mournful blasts from the Queen Elizabeth 2's whistles — "I'm moving astern" — as the ship backed out, streaming a 39-foot-long red paying-off pennant — a foot for each year at sea — a tradition marking the end of a ship's commission.

The central engine room had two each low-pressure ahead and astern turbines as well as two cruising turbines driving the two center shafts.

The central engine room had two each low-pressure ahead and astern turbines as well as two cruising turbines driving the two centre shafts.

Flt Lt A. R. Cruikshank is reported as having "Sited a Diver north of Ashford and attacked from astern at 100 yards range.

It was said to have reached an angle of 30 45 degrees, "revolving apparently around a centre of gravity just astern of midships," as Lawrence Beesley later put it.

What was brand-new, after it was over, was the vision of a Phillies player sprinting through the exuberant mobs on the field holding aloft a streaming, gigantic red flag emblazoned with "2008," and the ecstatically smiling M.V.P. Phillies slugger Ryan Howard tagging along astern like a kid as he held out the banner's skirt.

The cushion on his office sofa that bears a paraphrase of a Thomas Jefferson adage: "Steer your ship with hope, leaving fear astern" Though Lower Manhattan has blossomed as a residential community, growing to more than 50,000 residents, it has nearly 30,000 fewer jobs than it had before the Sept. 11 attack.

The boat can also be driven astern (in reverse) but that becomes risky as the array will fly under the boat and the umbilical could get caught in the boat's propellers.

Opening fire with his larboard battery, he positioned Neptune off the Spanish vessel's starboard beam and the two exchanged heavy fire for the next hour as more British ships poured through the gap astern of Neptune.

Ahead of him is Ger O'Rourke's Dutch-backed Delta Lloyd, which, as ABN Amro 1 won the race last time, but this time 48 miles astern in just 48 hours.

Northstar's berth was directly astern of Tyco.