The man is nearly swept off of the deck where he had been standing but gets wedged in between the sternpost and the rudder. |
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The stern was thrown upward 20 feet, and the rudder and sternpost were torn out of her. |
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Rudders fastened to the vessel's sternpost did not come into general use until after the time of William the Conqueror. |
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The most common form consists of a nearly flat, smooth surface of wood or metal hinged at its forward edge to the sternpost. |
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The sternpost was a high vertical slat with openwork scrolls and a small figure seated at the foot. |
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The whole canoe was painted red, with black-and-white details, and had feather streamers hung from the sternpost. |
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Like many ships today, the rudder of the cog ship is mounted on the sternpost. |
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After the rough dimensions of the keel, stem, and sternpost were achieved using an axe and saw, a plane was used to smooth and finely adjust their shapes. |
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