Sentence examples for going astern from inspiring English sources

If not, then her smartly raked and striped funnels will soon have appeared above the low-lying islands of the Kyles of Bute for the last time, and the familiar three blasts on her steam whistle to the yachts in Rothesay Bay ('Take care! I am going astern!') will never be heard again.

When going astern, the engines provided 32,000 shp.

ES (Ernest Simpson) you should go astern easy".

Another was the ability to go astern at full power without needing a separate reverse turbine to do so, simply by reversing the electrical polarity of the motors.

Ahead of her Fremantle saw Eliab Harvey's Temeraire turn to pass astern of the French Redoutable, but resolved to follow Nelson and HMS Victory to pass astern of the French flagship Bucentaure.

As they went they drifted away astern.

At the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October, the ship went into action immediately astern of Nelson's flagship,.

Tied up just astern the Botel Gracia is Circus Barok, a four-deck floating disco that keeps going until 6 a.m. on weekends.

With minutes to go before the starting gun, in a controlling position just astern, Cayard forced Prada to sail beyond the committee boat and away from the starting line.

Moltke and the other battlecruisers followed the move, which put them astern of König.

The Americans slipped behind the committee boat with Prada just astern to take the start by seven seconds.