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upper class. A popular story derives the word as an acronym from "port out, starboard home", referring to 19th-century first-class cabins on ocean liners...

it is presumed, from "constable on patrol", and "posh" from "port outward, starboard home". With some of these specious expansions, the "belief" that the...

normal outward bound course of about N76E (076 degrees) and soon sighted the masthead lights of SS Storstad, a Norwegian collier, on her starboard bow at...

violently onto her starboard side, allowing as many as 700 passengers and crew to crawl out of the portholes and decks onto her port side. The ship lay...

first ML in the starboard column was the first boat to catch fire. Her captain managed to beach her at the end of the Old Mole. Some starboard boats managed...

was not completely added (since the port bow was only renamed Alferdoss), so the name on the stern and starboard bow continued to show Noga. While under...

lifeboats on the starboard side swung out too far to step aboard safely. While it was still possible to board the lifeboats on the port side, lowering them...

list to starboard, orders were given for the men on deck to move to the port side in an effort to counteract it, but this caused a list to port which could...

Prichal forward Prichal nadir Prichal port Prichal starboard Poisk zenith Rassvet nadir Zvezda aft Forward ports are at the front of the station according...

Liverpool – New York route. Etruria had two large funnels that gave the outward impression of great power. She had three large steel masts that were barquentine-rigged...

describing an object located at a bearing of 90 degrees (starboard) or 270 degrees (port) as measured clockwise from the ship's bow. able seaman (AB)...

instability partially due to earlier damage to the port-side forward spar, which gave rise to the starboard sponson lifting off the surface of the water for...

starboard catapult was torn from the ship, along with the Kingfisher float plane that had been sitting on it. The ship suffered a list to starboard,...

two-pounder guns and the starboard torpedo director were removed and replaced by a single octuple two-pounder "pom-pom" mount on the starboard side of the funnel...

part of the ship between 120° and 180° to starboard (the starboard quarter), or 180° and 240° to port (the port quarter). quarterdeck The aftermost deck...

combined impact speed was about 25 kn (46 km/h). Testbank struck Ceramic's starboard side in way of her Number 1 hold, crushing Testbank's bow by about 20 ft...

long) and a high pressure astern turbine (twin of the port high pressure turbine) for the starboard shaft. The electrical plant, located on G deck below...

steam valves located on the starboard side of the engine room. While the roof of the engine room was insulated, the starboard side evidently was not. The...

The starboard side of the amidships section is missing down to the inner wall of the fuel tanks and the plates of the hull are curling outward; this...

(31 km/h; 20 mph). Their funnels were positioned on the starboard side and vented horizontally outward to keep the flight deck clear. Their bridges were located...