The bow headboard is narrower athwartship than the stern headboard.
If the deck end was on a thwart, a batten might be pegged athwartship on top of the deck; sometimes this batten was rolled in a sheet of bark first.
Elsewhere the deck of the kayak is flat athwartship except at the manhole, where there is some crown or ridging to increase the depth inside the boat, particularly forward of the manhole.
The surface vessels, by means of their athwartship propellers, are always kept headed due west, therefore the course must also be due west.
The surface vessel has a propeller in her skeg operating athwartship in addition to the usual stem propeller.
One is a fore and aft magnet or set of magnets, the other an athwartship magnet or set of magnets.
An athwartship line of armor runs from the water line to the barbettes, resting upon the protective deck.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "athwartship" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
