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She was about four thousand tons, and her engines were sternward and not amidship.
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You are emphasizing a force directed sternward rather than doing everything to enhance forward motion to bow.
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I released myself from my forward looking position, and turned back sternward to remember where I had come from.
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Pumped water is used to clean the grill and to push waste sternward along the sides of the barge.
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Gregory turned about to see the black waters to the sternward were rippled with sparkling threads of silver-white.
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Ambling sternward from the Schooner Bar, you'll find the attractive Safari Club, with its elegant tapestries and British Colonial charm.
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In the end, when the afternoon was waxing late, the sternward vessel stood up so that every detail of her loomed plain.
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This somewhat beard-like sternward extension of the keel is the basic skeg. Subsequently, the lowest pintle was commonly mounted below the rudder on a metal extension of the keel. This helped further stabilize and protect the rudder and the name skeg was transferred to it. It used to be relatively small until screw propellers were introduced, when it had to reach below the screw and became a proportionately larger feature protecting both screw and rudder from damage.
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While on exercises in Subic Bay during the spring of 1936, Whipple and the destroyer collided on 14 April. The latter suffered such serious damage in the accident that she had to be scrapped. As a consequence, Whipple, whose own bow had been bent around until it faced sternward, received Smith Thompson′s undamaged bow and soon reentered active service. Meanwhile, tension between China and Japan continued to worsen, particularly in North China. These long-simmering antagonisms erupted in open fighting near Peking on 7 July 1937, which soon became an all- out war in the vicinity.
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On wooden vessels, the skeg may be protected from worm damage by the addition of a bug shoe, or a "a length of hardened material, such as ironbark, placed on the sternward keel extension (skeg) to protect from shipworm damage." In more modern installations, with more than one screw, a fitting supports each propeller shaft just ahead of its screw. This is usually called a shaft bracket but the part of it which extends below the shaft bearing to protect the lower part of the propeller is also a skeg. Similarly, the protective projection of the drive casing, below the rotational axis of the propeller of an outboard motor is another form of the skeg.
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