They were running with a heavy beam sea and steering was like riding a horse downhill, he thought.

It was incredible to him that Vallenar would take his ship into a beam sea like this.

TheJuno was now stretching northwards, rolling with the beam sea.

This latter plan also has the advantage of forcing the destroyer through a beam sea."

Kaa rolled slowly in the water like a steamer in a beam sea.

From there to Fremantle, she encountered strong southerly winds and heavy beam seas.

The ship suffered from severe pitch and roll, though these effects were reduced in heavy winds and a beam sea.

They dared not judge whether it was possible at all for the Spaniard to take his ship across an almost beam sea at force-ten strength.

She drove across the beam sea in sharp, white explosions of spray, and her starboard gunports dipped closer to the water.

Beyond her by about half a mile was a spherical radar dome, probably the Natya, rolling noticeably with the beam seas.

'Twas a carronade that came adrift in the Bay when it was blowing a top-gallant breeze with a beam sea.

The beam sea was slowing down the Chilean ship by as much as a knot, but it was still closing the gap steadily, relentlessly.

The furious thrashings of the unbalanced drive had settled to a sort of regular lurch-and-spin no worse than that of a ship in a beam sea.

The campari, in spite of her stabilisers, was rolling through a ten to-fifteen-degree arc, which meant that there must be a pretty heavy and steep beam sea or swell running.

The three men brought the injured pilot aboard as carefully as they could but with both lifeboat and raft rolling heavily in the beam seas it was impossible to be too careful.

The craft en route from Ryde to Southsea was hit by a very large freak wave, after a strong beam wind against an adverse tide combined to produce a dangerous beam sea.

NORTH ATLANTIC The JULIUS FUCIK was rolling ten degrees with a beam sea.

She was of a somewhat unusual design, rather narrow in the beam with a wide, bulbous underwater section midships, but in spite of a tendency to roll heavily in a beam sea she was a surprisingly good sea boat as she was to prove in the years that followed.