Meanings of dead astern in English

Then Shard turned into the forest and the Arabs were dead astern.

Edge her in, Hawkins, until you are dead astern of the brigantine.

The lost missile, coming in from dead astern.

She is dead astern of us, sir, and I can only make out her upper sails.

If we keep it dead astern, we'll come out in Sancerre Bay, on Hermann Reuch's Land.

Two, the contact is dead astern.

There then, I am a sailor; I can't go beating and tacking like you landsmen, with the wind dead astern.

And it appeared so, for the ship just then came up in the wind several points, and left the bluff dead astern.

After a wide turn to lose altitude, Buccari initiated a course correction lining the EPL up with the run-in trajectory, moving the sun dead astern.

When she had passed beyond the range of her guns, she shaped her course southeast by east for Santander, the frigate being now dead astern.

That phrase about the "weather-bow" was a nautical fiction, for there was no wind to speak of, and what there was was nearly dead astern.

"If it had not been for you I should be floating away dead astern."

"There is a smudge of smoke dead astern, sir."

"That was the ship going up," he said; "the blast must have caught us dead astern."