She parted just abaft the engine-room, and the stern part immediately filled and went down.
He wants me to tell him whereabaft the binnacle is!
Trying an action which arose from the collision of two ships at sea, a sailor who gave an account of the accident said, "At the time I was standing abaft the binnacle.
The ammunition for the deck gun was stored immediately beneath the gun, which was mounted between the turret and the first hatch, abaft the turret.
The gun stood uncovered on the deck, just abaft the turret.
On the deck just abaft the windlass was a young German unter-leutnant, bound hand and foot and obviously half dazed with the result of a blow on the left temple.
Tressidar stood on a little platform abaft the low conning-tower.
To reply was impracticable, for the submarine was well beyond effective rifle-range, and the sole serviceable turret gun could not be trained sufficiently abaft the beam to bear upon the enemy.
From the after end of the superstructure floated the Black Cross of Germany, while abaft were two more "disappearing" guns and the above-water mine-dropping gear.
Ten minutes later the officers, deckhands, and engine-room staff were mustered abaft the foremast.
Six feet abaft the motor-boat's quarter the outlines of the trawler's mizzen chain-plates were just discernible in the darkness.
Bidding the gig lie off at a boat's length from the ship, which was now tilted at such an angle that her propellers were clear of the water, Captain Holloway, followed by Terence, disappeared down the little companion just abaft the after 4.
By dint of great exertion one four-inch gun with its mountings was transferred to each of the trawlers and set in position just abaft the mainmast.
Captain Ramshaw and Chief Officer Lymore were both flung from the crumbling structure on to the cargo hatch abaft the foremost.
The tide was coming in, and the boats swung so far abaft the boom that it had fallen clear of them when it dropped into the water.
It was located under and abaft the main ladder, in the steerage, being an apartment five feet in length by three feet in width.
Wilton gave a low whistle, when Shuffles, officer of the deck, was abaft the mizzenmast, with his back to the runaways who had gathered in the waist, and were waiting for the signal.
He was careful to place himself abaft the mainmast, so that the wicked engine would not spatter him.
Many of the officers were standing abaft admiring the beauty of the scene; but not giving vent to their feelings, from an inward consciousness of inability to do justice to it in their expressions.
As we wended our way from my cabin to the drawing-room, abaft which Mrs Vansittart's cabin was situate, I had time to note several matters.
The master was ordered to take the wheel, and those of the crew stationed abaft sent to the mainmast.
I took my station abaft with the intention of particularly observing Cromwell and Small.
Mrs Lascelles sat abaft at the taffrail, with her pretty hand supporting her cheek, looking very much à la Juliette.
Pickersgill and Corbett were in conversation abaft for a short time, when the former desired the course to be altered two points.
I could see a pair of shoes sticking out past the donkey-engine, just abaft the foremast; but the machinery hid the man from me.
I could hear the sharp clang of the bell; but the next instant there was a terrific roar, and the superstructure began to vomit steam through the engine-room skylight just abaft the little wheel-house.
The swell was on the quarter, and the wind and sea a trifle abaft the larboard beam; she leaned a little to the weight of her clothes, but was surprisingly stiff considering how light she was.
The figuration of the main hatch showed a small square, and there was a companion or hatch-cover abaft the mainmast.
Abaft the hatchway was a door on the starboard side which I opened, and found a narrow dark passage.
The bunk next on the port side to the cook's and abaft of it Daughtry allotted to Kwaque.
The next one abaft of his own he named "Killeny Boy's," and called on Kwaque and the cook to take notice.
Your place aboard Is with the gentlemen abaft the mast.
Bullied and damned at since the voyage "Being neither man nor seaman by his tally," He bunked with the idlers just abaft the galley.
It lay on the decks of the Snowbird abaft the foremast in gigantic pieces, and a very pretty sight it looked when the sun shone on it.
They had, fortunately, kept well to windward of their course, and were thus able to keep well away to fetch the north of the island; thus bringing the wind and the sea abaft the beam.
Abaft on the poop a man, the skipper, no doubt, just come from below, was standing.
For the room abaft the stateroom, wrought overhead and on each side with sundry figures in oil colours 15l.
The observer's seat is fittedabaft the engine and the pilot's seat is aft of the observer.
Auxiliary biplane rudders were fitted originally abaft the after car, but during the first two trial flights they proved so very unsatisfactory that it was decided to remove them.
Accommodation is provided for a wireless telegraphy operator, who is also a gunner, his compartment being situated forward, amidships is the pilot and abaftthis seat is a compartment for the engineer.
Auxiliary rudders were also fitted in case of a breakdown of the main steering gear abaft the after gondola.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abaft" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aft; after; astern
