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Photo: Onne Van der Wal Towing Astern Illustrations: Marc ParkerHang out offshore often enough and you may have to tow a vessel in distress.

From Time Magazine Archive

Astern, three steps down from the salon, lies the master stateroom, replete with a queen-size berth and a gloriously comfortable innerspring mattress.

From Time Magazine Archive

Astern on the bridge deck is a hoist and an inflatable tender.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Dead Slow" meant out to lunch; "Full Speed Astern" meant a faculty meeting.

From Time Magazine Archive

Astern of us the island coastline faded, and no land showed anywhere, but only sea and heaven, when Zeus Krom'on piled a thunderhead above the ship, while gloom spread on the ocean.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer