What is "fairwater"

Usage examples of "fairwater".

One of these controlled the rudder and the fairwater planes mounted on the sail, and the other the stern planes.

Two men even stood as lookouts out on the fairwater planes on either side of the sail.

Barely making headway, the huge craft slipped slowly through the water, stabilized by her fairwater planes.

The huge fairwater planes on the sail, each the size of a garage door, were rotated so they pointed straight up and down to clear the ice.

Officer, give me max down angle on the ship with fairwater and sternplanes.

Worse, the loss of the hovering system after the collision meant the ship would need to keep bare steerage way over the fairwater and sternplanes to keep from sinking--which required propulsion--another reason to stay critical.

JAM DIVE An emergency that results from either the sternplanes or fairwater planes failing in the dive position, forcing the submarine toward crush depth.

Chinese with the very basic facts that the propeller had on one side a square opening to fit the shaft, and on the other a fairwater that had to point astern, and around its collar four big setscrews that had to be made immovably tight.

Katla replied and reached across for the daughter of the Fairwater clan.

FAIRWATER PLANES Winglike surfaces protruding from the sail of a submarine, used for depth control.

The fountain too, which, since the alteration made by the tyrants, has been called Enneacrounos, or Nine Pipes, but which, when the spring was open, went by the name of Callirhoe, or Fairwater, was in those days, from being so near, used for the most important offices.

All that was required was for Chief Beck—doing much sign language and occasionally drawing with a piece of charcoal on the deck—to acquaint the Chinese with the very basic facts that the propeller had on one side a square opening to fit the shaft, and on the other a fairwater that had to point astern, and around its collar four big setscrews that had to be made immovably tight.