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How to use athwartships in a sentence

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This separation occurred some time after the principal initial athwartships brittle fracture located just aft of the grain-loading port coaming.
The mast should now have approximately the same pre-bend as it had when it was lying on the trestles, and it will be straight athwartships.
At 35º of helm, propeller thrust is diverted laterally, thereby creating an athwartships thrust similar to a thruster.
It extends athwartships 4.9 m over the work deck, with a hinged attachment at the stern bulwark.
The adult and children's lifejackets stowed in the overhead athwartships rack of the Famille Dufour II were not readily accessible.
Check that the mast is straight athwartships by sighting up the mast from deck level.
The vessel's hull is a conventional V-form design with a transom stern, four athwartships seats and two longitudinal bench seats aft.
The jumper arrangement stays the top mast, not only athwartships but also fore-and-aft.
The stowage cradle has an athwartships notch that accommodates the liferaft's keel and facilitates the launch procedure.
Although the shortened towline was intended to improve manoeuvrability, with the vessels in this position, it pivoted such that its force was acting athwartships on the tugboat, and no longer directly behind it.
They are separated by a distance athwartships of 24.5 m. The angle between a line parallel to the centre line of the vessel and the line of sight of the side lights is one degree inward.
The primary means of access to, and escape from, the wheel-house is by way of an athwartships sliding door located in the after bulkhead, which slides to starboard when in the open position.
As the vessel lay athwartships to the ice flow on a 245ºG heading, the ice, which had accumulated on the starboard side of the vessel, drifted down stream.
Roll reduction is principally due to the damping effect caused by the athwartships motion of the water inside the tank being similar to, but out of phase with, the natural rolling motion of the vessel.
The athwartships fracture crosses the main deck in a straight line at about 90 degrees to the fore-and-aft axis of the vessel, and continues through the radiused gunwale and down the starboard side shell plating.
Check that the mast is straight athwartships.
Furthermore, because optimum ART performance is largely dependent on an equally balanced athwartships flow of water within the tank, this is only achieved when the vessel is free-rolling about its vertical axis.
The athwartships momentum continued during this time, and the vessel closed the distance to the rocky shoal faster than the reversed propulsion could move her past the shoal.
Examples from Classical Literature
For a boat to take along, I made shift to cut a castaway dory in two athwartships, boarding up the end where it was cut.
A torrent poured down the athwartships alleyway, and nearly swept me from my feet.
At all times except when whales were alongside, this bench was securely lashed athwartships against the rear of the Try-works.
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