astern

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead, the ship had struck Full Astern Reef, which ripped a 30-ft. gash through its double hull and into the engine room.

From Time Magazine Archive

Astern, cut off from ship's officers by the fire, frightened passengers in night clothes prayed, shrieked, sang "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here."

From Time Magazine Archive

Astern was the battleship, smarting from her head wound.

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