| I rigged up a sail out of the oar and the canvas spray shield, but there wa'n't wind enough to give us steerageway. |
| Thus it lost headway sufficiently so that the seas caused it to drift back, without its coming about or losing all steerageway. |
| When both tug and tow were heading downstream the master used a minimum throttle in order to maintain bare steerageway as he followed the south bank of the river toward the south draw of the bridge. |
| The Canada Senator's rescue boat should have been launched once the vessel slowed down to bare steerageway. |
| He held her nose up to the open sea, allowing her only steerageway, the gale slithering off her flattened sail. |
| The tugboats, from six up in number, merely influence the ship until she gets steerageway, most of the energy coming from the ship's engines. |
