We were constantly employed repeating signals, firing guns, and often sent back to tow up the sternmost vessels.
We then discovered the sternmost ship wearing also; wore ship immediately after her, and gave her a stern rake, she luffing to on our starboard bow and giving us her larboard broadside.
The First-Lieutenant having got within musket-shot of the chase with Mr Oliver's boat, he directed his men to lie on to their oars that they might arm, and allow the sternmost boats to come up.
In a few minutes more the sternmost boats got up, and their crews also armed and prepared for the attack.
She soon got alongside of them, and commenced the action, which was kept up with considerable vivacity on the part of the enemy, for about forty minutes, when the headmost ship bore away, and the sternmost struck her flag.
On the 22nd, the squadron fell in with the enemy off L'Orient at daylight, at which time the Orion was one of the sternmostships when the signal was made to chase.
At five minutes past eleven the Superb opened her fire; and, very shortly after, the two sternmost ships of the enemy were seen to be in flames.
At this time our sternmost vessels were two leagues off, and the commodore wore round, and hauled up on the other tack.
It must have been near midnight, when the enemy began to fire at the Fair American, the sternmost vessel of our weather line.
After a while, the four sternmost schooners of our line kept off, according to orders, but the Julia and Growler still stood on.
The British, fearing their sternmost vessels would be cut off, at 12.
Accordingly the lieutenant put about and ran off toward the northwest, no notice being taken of him by the enemy beyond an ineffectual broadside from the sternmost frigate.
With eager eyes they watched for the appearance of the squadron; the ships of war were at length seen, the steamers leading, followed by a line of merchantmen, one coming after the other till the sternmost was lost in the distance.
Adair had command of the sternmost one of the squadron.
From this position they opened on her bows with theirsternmost 13-pounders, seeking to damage the bow of the Kronprinz Wilhelm, breach the forward compartments, and so delay the ship.
A stunning succession of blows rained upon the Glasgow, the sternmost battleship in the British line, and her excessively thin belt was pierced by three German 9.
The Thames Conservancy had no control over them, and they would lie half-way up Putney Reach waiting for a race, and then steam alongside of or even ahead of the sternmost competitor.
At the same time the water ballast was being ejected from the ballast tanks in the sternmost section of the vessel, while the bow compartment tanks correspondingly filled.
A deep trough appeared less than a hundred yards from the sternmost boat, and horror-stricken the terrified Italians found that their frail vessels were being sucked into the abyss.
The sternmost ships of the squadron being out of range, the rocket party prepared to retreat, while the enemy, misled by the flagstaff, which was erected at some distance from their place of concealment, fired away at that.
The British seamen cheered and, opening fire from their big guns, were soon up to the sternmost junks.
Early on the morning of the 24th he again came within hail of the sternmost of the French ships.
In the sternmost part of the ship, a cabin was fitted up for the use of the writer; the whole being found extremely commodious and suitable.
At 9 the Admiral made the sign for the strange fleet being an enemy, and for oursternmost ships to make more sail.
While he was speaking, the sternmost ship was seen to come to the wind; her yards were braced up, and now, apparently aware of her danger, she endeavoured to stand off the land before the rising gale should render the undertaking impossible.
He was nowhere to be seen, and to his relief he found that the Nancy was one of the sternmost boats.
The Centurion came up with the sternmostship of the enemy about four in the afternoon.
By midnight, we made out on our starboard-bow several sail, which we had no doubt were some of the sternmost vessels of the French convoy; so we stood towards them without hesitation.
It had become almost dark before we arrived abreast of the threesternmost ships.
Even before the sternmost ships of the squadron were clear of the straits, the serenity of the sky was suddenly obscured, and we observed all the presages of an impending storm.
Could they indeed do so, it would be, they soon saw, to little purpose, for every instant the breeze increased, and the mistico was already up to the sternmost boats.
The Poltava was the sternmost ship in the Russian battle-line; and as though her shots had been a signal, the fire instantly ran right along the Russian line from rear to van.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sternmost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
