- Formerly,
larboard was
often used
instead of port. This is from
Middle English ladebord and the term lade is
related to the
modern load.
Larboard sounds...
-
Spanish vessels.
Captain opened fire with her
larboard broadside, and then put the helm over and
hooked her
larboard cat-head with the
starboard quarter of San...
- the
starboard tack has a
right to keep her course, and the one on the
larboard tack must give way or be
answerable for the consequences. So when two vessels...
-
under Captain Pulteney Malcolm, was seen
approaching from the
south on the
larboard tack with a
moderate breeze from northwest-by-north and
steered directly...
-
intake for the deck wash pump,
which was
three feet
below water level. The
larboard guns had been run out and the
starboard guns
moved into the
centre of the...
- Bucentaure's stern,
Neptune discharged a double-shotted
broadside from her
larboard (port) guns, with
devastating consequences on Villeneuve's
already disabled...
-
Nautical terms for
elements of a vessel:
starboard (right-hand side), port or
larboard (left-hand side),
forward or fore (frontward), aft or
abaft (rearward)...
- UTC on the same day. On 3
November 2022,
Mengtian was
relocated to the
larboard port at 01:32 UTC by
indexing robot arm. On the same day at 07:12 UTC,...
- Berrice, in the
north of the
British Isles, but
whether to starboard,
larboard, or
straight ahead is not known. From the time of the
Roman Empire all...
- item to
prevent loss or is used to
operate something by
pulling on it.
larboard An
obsolete term for the left side of a ship.
Derived from "lay-board"...
