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Definition of Steerageway
1. Noun. (nautical) the minimum rate of motion needed for a vessel to be maneuvered.
Definition of Steerageway
1. n. A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.
Definition of Steerageway
1. Noun. (nautical) The minimum speed of a ship, below which it does not answer the helm and cannot be steered. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Steerageway
1. [n -WAYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steerageway
Literary usage of Steerageway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot by George Byron Merrick (1909)
"... swing easily and promptly, until her head was pointed downstream; and then by
coming ahead and gaining steerageway, the boat was under perfect control. ..."
2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"64), which provides that every vessel shall in thick weather go at a moderate
speed and on hearing a fog signal ahead slow down to bare steerageway, ..."
3. Report on the Mississippi River Floods by Knute Nelson (1898)
"A certain amount of speed, commensurate with the size of the ship, is necessary
in order to effect a steerageway. Q. The object of my inquiry was to ..."
4. The Rules of the Road at Sea: Comprising the International Rules for by William Harvell LaBoyteaux (1920)
"She had not complete steerageway for all maneuvers. ... She was substantially
keeping her course and had sufficient steerageway for that purpose, ..."
5. Sunderland: A History of the Town, Port, Trade and Commerce by Taylor Potts (1892)
"... if she lost her steerageway, and the strong wind blowing her out of the harbour,
then the anchor had to be dropped until the sails were clewed up and a ..."
6. United States Compiled Statutes, Annotated, 1916: Embracing the Statutes of by John Allan Mallory, United States (1920)
"Inability of particular vessel to go slow and maintain steerageway will not excuse
it for proceeding at a greater than moderate rate of speed through dense ..."
7. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"You know there must be impulse enough for steerageway, though it be not toward
your port, to prevent your drifting helplessly on to ..."
8. The Photographic History of the Civil War: Thousands of Scenes Photographed by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier (1911)
"... which was not under steerageway. It was at this exciting moment that the
monitors drew tip, ..."
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