We swim sternwards past boilers and engine, then along the propeller shaft.
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Nevertheless they could always discern from it that their course, whether stemwards or sternwards, was steadily south.
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A spotted eagle ray winged its way sternwards as we meandered in the direction of the bow, just above the port rail.
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Heading sternwards on the starboard side of the wreck, the first few metres are just the flat base of the double-bottomed hull.
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Continuing sternwards, the empty mounting for the stern navigation light can be found behind a raised box at the aft end of the superstructure.
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And it is rather hills and fields that seem sternwards to fly When really the ship is rowing, or under sail goes skimming by.
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If the tide is not tugging too fiercely at your fins by now, you might wish to continue sternwards and view the most impressive area of the wreck.
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The footstretcher can also move bow-wards or sternwards, usually to accommodate the length of the rower's legs. Typically a coach will start rigging the boat on the basis of all of the crew achieving the same position at the finish of the stroke, by adjusting the positions of the footstretchers.
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At some point in the process, it appears 3264741 Nova Scotia Limited assigned its rights to another company called NumberCo. Polar Star was taken out of dry dock by February 2013, and some work was done on the sternwards fifth deck.MV Polar Star Update 26 Aug 2013 On August 2013, the MV Polar Star changed ownership to Nova Scotia Ltd. of Halifax, Canada, according to Dutch NedCruise.
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In his Almagest, Claudius Ptolemy described Argo Navis as occupying the portion of the Milky Way between Canis Major and Centaurus, and identified stars comprising such details as the "little shield", the "steering-oar", the "mast-holder", and the "stern-ornament", which continued to be reflected in cartographic representations in celestial atlases into the nineteenth century (see below). The ship appeared to rotate about the pole sternwards, so nautically in reverse. Aratus, the Greek poet / historian living in the third century BCE, noted this backward progression writing, "Argo by the Great Dog's [Canis Major's] tail is drawn; for hers is not a usual course, but backward turned she comes ...".
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Because of Ashby's previous manoeuvres, Rooke's division was now closer to the embattled Red squadron, and joined the fray. Neptune 96 (Blue 24, Rooke's flagship), Windsor Castle 90 (Blue 25) and Expedition 70 (Blue 26), were able to engage the French ships, particularly Soleil Royal and Ambiteux, increasing the damage they had already sustained. Ashby, in Victory 100 (Blue 14) and the rest of his division joined the fray shortly after, engaging the main body for the next two hours. 8pm Shovell's ships were still in range of the French, but found themselves sternwards to the French bows, so only a few guns on either side could be engaged.
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The propulsion forces are the forward reaction of the water on the oars while in the water. The oar can be used to provide a drag force (a force acting against the forward motion) when the system is brought to rest. Although the oar can be conveniently thought of as a lever with a "fixed" pivot point in the water, the blade moves sideways and sternwards through the water, so that the magnitude of the propulsion force developed is the result of a complex interaction between unsteady fluid mechanics (the water flow around the blade) and solid mechanics and dynamics (the handle force applied to the oar, the oar's inertia and bending characteristic, the acceleration of the boat and so on).
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