The wheel was of iron and operated a patent screw-gear which turned the rudder post.
The schooner tore along, yawing and plunging, but she started to come up with the turn of her rudder and Donald met her with unerring instinct.
They rigged also a couple of masts and sails, and some long oars, as well as a rudder and some short paddles, which latter might be used at times when the oars could not be so well worked.
The rudder had lost its power, being nearly out of the water, so that no means but the desperate one to which we were about to have recourse remained for getting the ship before the wind.
But Deacon continued to pass up a thirty-two stroke while the Shelburne boat slid gradually away until at the three-mile mark there was a foot of clear water between its rudder and the prow of the Baliol shell.
She had been on the Sker-weather sands already, and lost her rudder and some of her sternpost, as the lift of the water showed; and now there was nothing left on board her of courage or common seamanship.
Although, in downright common-sense, having Bunny for my grandchild, I also possessed beyond any doubt whatever belonged to Bunny; just as the owner of a boat owns the oars and rudder also.
And at the same time he applied the sea rudder and swung the huge craft a quarter turn and headed out toward open sea beyond the basin breakwater.
He jammed on port rudder and the roaring engines swung the huge craft around to the left.
At other times her swiftness barely equaled that of the surges, her rudder lost all power, and she gave terrific lurches that threatened to capsize her.
But soon the craft was drawn into the eddies, and turned round and round, so that neither oar nor rudder could keep it in a straight course.
The rudder was not, therefore, confined, but worked freely.
At low water she lay almost dry, so we mended her bottom, and stopped the leak, which was occasioned by straining some of the rudder irons with the shock which the ship had against the rock.
At that moment you must give a pull on your control and push the rudder "hard a-port," as a sailor would say.
In fact, each aeroplane has painted on its body and rudder the name and distinguishing marks of its pilot and escadrille.
Formerly the importance of this little upward turn of the rudderwas not fully appreciated by aviators, and many a machine was wrecked by a sudden hard compact with the earth.
The Penguin, besides, does not answer the rudder as easily as the other types.
I could not possibly pass over them, so I pressed desperately against my rudder controls.
Besides, Tahoser's crew were so skilful that their vessel seemed endowed with life, so swiftly did it obey the rudder and avoid in the nick of time serious obstacles.
The rudder consisted of two huge sweeps, ending in heads of Hathor, that were fastened with long strips of stuff and worked upon hollow posts.
This whole evolution was made with the greatest facility, not a sheet being touched, the sails trimming themselves, the rudder alone controlling the admirable machine.
These practices will be, as a Kempis says particularly of one of them, as a rudder guiding the ship, keeping it on its proper course.
The wind now again increased in violence, and on the 10th November carried the rudder a second time from its hinges.
That the sternpost should show, say, a quarter of an inch above the water-line aft, and the rudderbe hung thereon.
She did very well until her keel and attached rudder were removed and replaced by a fin with bulb and a 'disconnected' rudder.
Her fin and rudder looked like a slice of Swiss cheese.
Aside from a shell hole through the rudder and countless bullet holes, there was none worth mentioning.
The rudder and elevators still work,” Barry told his crew.
The engine-room rings up, the chief officer telephones from aft that the starboard chain has parted, the rudder jammed hard to port.
We back out into the river, bring up, then come ahead, canting to a rudder pressure that sheers us into the fairway.
We swing on the curve of a gathering impetus--it is evident that the rudder is held to port; converging on us at full speed, the rear ship of the outer column steams into the arc of our disorder!
Curtsying to full rudder pressure, we join the dance, and swing to her measure, adjusting speed to mark time while other important leaders of columns draw up abeam.
Even where I stood I could hear the jar and shock of the rudder struck by the swell, and the grinding of the tiller-chains as the wheel kicked.
The heavy swell still rose and sunk the vessel, washing her sides to the height of the bulwarks, and making the rudder kick furiously.
At the speed at which she was travelling she had obeyed the rudder in the first instance so promptly as to come round close to the wind.
Doing away with the outer bearing in rudder post is an improvement, provided the bearing in the outer end of screw shaft in the stern tube is sufficiently large.
It allows the rudder post to have its own work to do without bringing any strain on the screw shaft, and in the event of the vessel's grounding and striking under the rudder post, it does not throw any strain on the screw shaft.
And thus part of the old family of Rudder Grange had come together again.
Our life at Rudder Grange seemed to be in no way materially changed by my becoming a vestryman.
During the early part of our residence at Rudder Grange I never thought of such a thing as owning a pistol.
We had spent several months at Rudder Grange, and during this time Euphemia had been working very hard, and she really did begin to look pale and thin.
But then we would have to leave Rudder Grange for at least three weeks, and how could we do that?
If that wretched boarder had not taken the rudder for an ironing table he might have steered in shore!
Waterford never did come to see us, and I merely mention this incident to show how some of our friends talked about Rudder Grange, when they first heard that we lived there.
We had enlarged the boundaries of Rudder Grange, having purchased the house, with enough adjoining land to make quite a respectable farm.
To be sure, it wasn't exactly a grange, but then it had such an enormous rudder that the justice of that part of the title seemed to over-balance any little inaccuracy in the other portion.
Rudder Grange could not run itself for three weeks.
In case of a breakdown of the quadrant, wheel or post head, you can at once take control of the rudder and keep the boat under command.
The difference between the ketch and the yawl is this: in the yawl the mizzen-mast is stepped abaft the rudder post, and in the ketch forward of it.
She should also have in her rudder blade a boring or rod in which to make fast emergency lines or chains.
All seagoing yachts should have the rudder post boxed up and carried well above the water line.
Whenever you get far from land, lash the oars and rudder in the dingey.
Alan had thrown the rudderover and the balloon had responded instantly.
At ten o'clock that evening all the work on the car was finished except the buckling on of the aluminum silk sides and the hanging of the propeller, the rudder and the aeroplane sides.
It was elevated so that the propeller and aeroplanes and rudder could all be tested after being set up.
The propeller, rudder and aeroplane guides were now put in place and tested.
Alan was on the pilot platform with his hands on the wheel controlling the rudder wires.
It was not long until the rudder wires and the aeroplane shafts had been attached to their proper guide wheels in the lookout or pilot portion of the engine cabin.
The Cibola again answered the rudderand circled, Ned flashing the bulb until the river came beneath them.
The engine was to be started at quarter speed, which meant that the sound would be imperceptible; and, lying on the floor of the cabin, Ned was to direct the movements of the ship, with Alan at the rudder wheel and Bob at the aeroplane guider.
She did so after a time, and by means of a rudder put the boat before the wind; the boat then took in much less water, but ran at a swift rate through the heavy sea.
I took the rudder lines from her, and steered the boat, while she again resorted to the bladder of spirits.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rudder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
