How To Use Starboard In A Sentence

He said: ‘The starboard sponson had lifted a foot out of the water and the craft was rolling heavily.’
Reaching the shrouds hanging from Kaliakra's starboard side, he began his ascent.
I was helplessly trapped in the cockpit with the aircraft lying on its starboard side.
Abaft the hatchway was a door on the starboard side which I opened, and found a narrow dark passage. The Frozen Pirate
All light aircraft maintenance workshops would most certainly have one for synchronizing and timing port and starboard magnetos on piston engines.

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This task being finally accomplished, the ropes were taken off, the sails run up and the two sloops, closehauled to starboard, set about beating off shore. The Black Buccaneer
In the few seconds available, he dashed to the starboard side and braced himself for the impact. Times, Sunday Times
Although the vessel was listing to starboard, the skipper continued towards a small island in spite of warnings from the group.
If cable-laid, the tails lie aft on the larboard side and forward on the starboard side; shroud-laid the opposite.
He parked alongside some piles of pallets stacked on the quayside which were very close to the bollards to which the starboard mooring lines were secured.
Then a thick, terrific blast pierced through the shield and glanced off the ship, blistering the hull and raking a starboard section open.
The head is to starboard opposite the galley and there is a large owner's stateroom to starboard aft.
The starboard ski did a backward somersault over the tail section just as Mike and his crew had feared.
The bowsprit of the _Pique_ passing over the starboard-quarter of the _Blanche_, Captain Faulkner, aided by his second lieutenant and two others of his crew, was in the act of lashing the _Pique's_ bowsprit to her capstern, when he was shot by a musket-ball through the heart. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
To starboard is a large galley with plenty of storage and counter space.
There was scarce a word interchanged, and no common sentiment but that of cold united us, until at length, having touched at Greenock, a pointing arm and a rush to the starboard now announced that our ocean steamer was in sight. Essays of Travel
I finned along the starboard side to the base of the bow, where I found a monster edible crab.
It shows the ship lying forlornly on her starboard side, almost completely capsized.
I therefore kept the felucca away until I found that she was rather more than holding her own in the race, when I once more lashed the tiller, and, calling to Dominguez to look out for the things that I was about to launch overboard, ran to the gangway, and first successfully set the wash-deck tub afloat, then rolled the breaker of water out through the open _gangway_, and finally sent the mast and sail adrift; after which I returned to the tiller and watched the process of picking up the several articles, as I gradually brought the felucca to her former course, close-hauled upon the starboard tack. A Pirate of the Caribbees
The boat was on our starboard quarter, a couple of miles out and closing.
While the vessel was on the starboard tack, the side kept him snug; but, when they wore her, of course he had no leeboard to keep him in. A Simpleton
Obediently he trundled off towards Red Diamond's waist, where the starboard watch was gathered.
The torpedo hit the starboard side behind the bridge. Times, Sunday Times
A set of javelins, five of them, from a springal, struck from their guides by a forward-springing plank, raked the interior wall of the starboard rowing frame. Guardsman Of Gor
The large fallen box structure with a post sticking out to starboard is the gun mount.
The long oarlike rudder was on the board or side of the ship to the right of the stern, called the starboard or steerboard. Days of the Discoverers
Starboard gybe is obviously safer than port, and clear air is vital.
The hull had suffered extensive damage to the starboard side.
It sheared past in a scream of iron, stripping away a section of the starboard rail and crushing the wooden gangway to matchwood. RUSHING TO PARADISE
Another column dashed up her starboard side and carried off her smokestack.
As the boat was swinging from a port to a starboard tack, one of the ladies stood up and turned directly into the oncoming boom.
The cheerful sailor crept forward and jibed over the foresail as Charley put the helm to starboard and we swerved to the right into the San Joaquin. Charley's Coup
Right at the front of the bow one can look back along both the upper port and lower starboard sides of the hull.
Further back, the port side of the deck is low in the silt and either the hold coamings are offset to starboard or the forward mast is offset to port.
So with that intent, one dropt on our starboard side called the la Fue and the other dropt on our larboard side called the Doubtable, they kept a very hot fire for some time. Trafalgar account is rare voice from below decks
Indeed, outside the starboard porthole I saw a large fish, apparently captive, violently trying to disengage itself and in the process tearing some of the skin and flesh of its back.
Each watch falls in for inspection on its respective side of the deck -- that is, the starboard watch on the right side, the port watch on the left. From Lower Deck to Pulpit
After exiting from the hatch wearing his breathing apparatus, he released the starboard charge with a heavy spanner. Times, Sunday Times
The river straightened out here into its general easterly course, and we squared away before the wind, wing-and-wing once more, the foresail bellying out to starboard. Charley's Coup
Moving forward along the starboard side, a three-sided frame sticking up from the banked sand would have been part of a deckhouse covering the boiler.
The starboard engine coughed twice and cut. Bomber
The Umbria now lies on its side in 24m on Wingate Reef, its starboard-side davits still breaking the surface.
Off the starboard of the Goya’s stern, a huge basinlike depression was forming on the surface of the sea. Deception Point
On the starboard quarter, eighty miles away, he could see the target being attacked. Bomber
So, instead of making speed through the water toward deep sea, I hove the Elsinore to on the starboard tack with no more than leeway driftage to the west and south. CHAPTER XLVI
The crewman on the starboard side had gotten clear when he noticed the aircraft moving.
For search and rescue missions the rescue hoist and winch are installed on the starboard side and the helicopter operates under hover trim control.
The captain turned the ship to the starboard side, bracing the crew for the rapids and falls ahead.
The starboard side and part of the deck were smashed open, metal sheets torn and crushed.
In the end the "Reindeer" retained it, and the action began with both on the starboard tack, closehauled, the Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2
the ship developed a list to starboard
Switching the autopilot to standby, Allen turned the helm a few degrees and watched as the repeater compass drifted to starboard. CORMORANT
A hull plate that has bent into a large curve marks the halfway-back point on the starboard side of the wreck.
Somewhere below in the turbulent maelstrom was the starboard rail. LET NOT THE DEEP
It lay in two pieces at 38m, with the bow on its starboard side and the stern lying to port.
Water cascaded onto the car deck and the ferry capsized and sank in minutes, coming to rest on its starboard side in just under 30m of water.
The ship lost its sonar dome and the starboard stabiliser in the grounding.
She tied it off securely to a cleat on the starboard corner of the transom.
Running off before the wind with everything to starboard, he came about, and returned close-hauled on the port tack. Chapter 17
Further aft the main saloon has an L-shaped dinette to port and settee to starboard followed by a good-sized galley to port and navigation station to starboard.
The two wheels were almost as wide as the ship, and while the port one still looked impressive, the less well-preserved starboard wheel required a bit more imagination to visualise.
We were side-slipping, starboard wing down, falling to earth with our engines howling.
Instinct tells me to vault up the steep incline to the starboard rear emergency exit. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
A minute later he heard the rhythmic thump of the starboard bilge pump uniting with his own pumping.
Both propellers are in place, though the starboard propeller is missing a couple of blades.
Heinkel bombers from Crete flew to the merchant anchorages at the mouth of the Gulf of Suez and dropped a single bomb on her starboard quarter, ripping a huge vertical gash in her side.
Rathlin Island on her starboard side, disembogued by the Northern The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras
One man I noticed fetch up, head on and square on, with the starboard bitt. THE HEATHEN
As there was some doubt as to the starboard anchor having gone clear, the port anchor was dropped close to the foot of the Mole and the cable bowsed-to, with less than a shackle out. The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets Or, the Fall of the German Navy
He could hear the foghorn astern, off the starboard quarter. THE MAIN CAGES
Look closer and you'll notice the port and starboard navigation lights, and the knot meter lined up next to the speedo and rev counter on the dash.
The pilot and co-pilot/gunner sit side by side with the pilot on the starboard side.
The sound he had heard was the feathering of the starboard prop.
Just a few feet off the starboard bow, the bloated carcass of a full-grown steer stared back at us.
The main saloon of the Mariner has a settee to starboard just inside the companionway and a convertible dinette to port.
The main mast top mast was bent to the deck with cordage and sail draping across to starboard.
With the right timing, outward or inward bound, ships were guaranteed a following wind in the starboard quarter. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
By contrast, the starboard propeller is lying under the hull, away from the light, and is adorned in soft red corals.
She still reached her convoy rendezvous in Loch Ewe on time, but while waiting for sailing orders lost her starboard anchor when the cable snapped.
To starboard there is a good-sized galley and adequate navigation station.
Off the starboard of the Goya's stern, a huge basinlike depression was forming on the surface of the sea. Deception Point
While Kwaque obeyed, the mate sounded the well for the last time, reporting three feet and a half, and the lighter freightage of the starboard boat was tossed in by the sailors. CHAPTER XV
He forgot his musing when the Blue Horizon banked to the starboard and then suddenly bucked upward.
When we walked to the jet, the mechs had the starboard engine-bay door open and were replacing bleed-air ducts.
It is believed the plane cartwheeled across a rocky plateau before the starboard wing burst into flames.
The plane dipped down and its starboard wing hit the water, flinging off Mr Treweek.
On the starboard were a number of guest rooms arranged in suites of parlour, bedroom, and bath, while at the crown of the arch was a large dining-room in which fifty persons could sit down to dinner comfortably. L.P.M. : the end of the Great War
Below deck there is a v-berth forward, port and starboard quarter berths and sitting head room.
Through the stupidity of the look-outs the next thing we knew was that she was off on the starboard quarter, and to windward of us, she having been on the _starboard_ tack all the while! The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter
The lumbering shuttle lazily side slipped from port to starboard and back in futile attempts to shake off pursuit.
This ship sank while underway, and now rests on its starboard side.
The starboard engine coughed twice and cut. Bomber
Once the bow has been pushed away from the dock, cast off stern spring, brace around foreyards on a starboard tack.
He then went to his cabin on the starboard side behind the bridge. Titanic - Destination disaster
So port is on the left and starboard is right. The Sun
On their fifth day, when the ship was riding so low she seemed sure to founder, Cochrane ordered another fother made, but this he ordered big enough to straddle half the starboard hull. Sharpe's Devil
Inside are to be found the two pilots in a surprisingly detailed cockpit, a loadmaster and another individual by the starboard forward door.
The crates on the starboard side had snapped their ropes and slammed against the bulkhead as we crash-landed. SKORPION'S DEATH
So, at that point, it appears the crew flooded the starboard side of the ship.
She kept rolling now until the starboard wing was tilted upward at forty degrees. Bomber
The main saloon features a port side dinette and, on the three-cabin model, there is a starboard galley in the main saloon.
The main saloon is amidships over the engine room and features a sofa along the starboard aft bulkhead that converts to a fore and aft berth.
The stern is intact, though canted over to lie on its starboard side, like the rest of the wreck.
The judge then made a finding at page 55, against which there was no appeal, that the explosion occurred at the forward end of No 3 hatch, about on the centre line of the vessel, and probably a little to starboard of it.
Saturday we didn't sail as the wind was too strong for numpties such as ourselves, and many of the boats which did go out were capsizing right left and centre (or should that be starboard, port and centre?
Our chart showed a group of small islands off to starboard, with - unusually - a marked channel leading in.
On the seabed, the ship looked massive, listing slightly to starboard and perfectly placed in a sand-chute which plunged over a wall.
The hull had suffered extensive damage to the starboard side.
A rowboat with a man and a dog in it slipped by their starboard side, not more than twenty meters away, nearly invisible in the dusk. CORMORANT
It was at that time that another depth charge exploded close to the aft starboard fin.
I finished my pint in the ship's bar and went to the starboard viewing rail to watch the sunlight reflecting off that famous sea stack, the Old Man Of Hoy.
Instinct tells me to vault up the steep incline to the starboard rear emergency exit. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
The light from my lantern seemed no more than a sickly yellow glow against the gloom, and higher, some forty or fifty feet, and a few ratlines below the futtock rigging on the starboard side, there was another glow of yellowness in the night. The Ghost Pirates
He used to paint his big toenails red and green, to remind him which side was starboard and port. Times, Sunday Times
A single point for pressure refueling is installed on the starboard side of the fuselage.
I could see the fishing boat to starboard.
The entire stern section of the wreck is tilted aft and to starboard.
Following the starboard side further forward, a pair of old rubber tyre fenders are still attached to the rail.
Although the rudder is amidships, it could simply have fallen to that line as the wreck settled to its starboard side.
Port and starboard: We left port and went right to starboard. The Sun
He then entered the hull, which was still sitting on its starboard side.
Beating out aweather, against the gentle landward breeze he beheld a great ship on their starboard bow, that he conceived to be some three or four miles off, and -- as well as he could judge her at that distance -- of Captain Blood
‘There are two old ladies on your starboard side who want their money back’, he joshed.
True to his promise, the eagle rays are gently flapping and wheeling in the current off the starboard quarter, frustratingly staying just too far away to photograph.
Had not Pitt, her master, himself seized the whipstaff and put the helm hard over to swing her sharply off to starboard, she must have suffered still worse from the second volley that followed fast upon the first. Captain Blood
The horses were unhitched from the front of the trailer and two pairs hitched each side to heavy port and starboard booms.
The admiral made the signal to haul on the wind on the starboard.
The main saloon is nicely arranged with a transom berth and pilot berth to port and a settee/berth to starboard.
I should explain that the space under the topgallant forecastle was divided by a bulkhead running fore and aft into parts forming separate cabins, one called the starboard, and the other the larboard berths, with bunks built up on both sides, one above another, or rather, in two stories, to explain myself better. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures
As planned, we moved the formation to starboard echelon and tried to re-enter for the break.
The stricken yacht had significant flooding to her port demi-hull, the port engine was damaged, the starboard rudder was gone and there was damage to the port rudder.
On the water, a yacht on starboard tack has undisputed right-of-way in any confrontation.
We beat the Navy on that in the sense that we saw cruise missile flashes from a guided missile cruiser off to our starboard quarter in the distance at night.
The starboard oars dipped into the water and were held fast and the great ship slowed and stopped.
Navigators in the open sea normally alter course in this way because they believe there is another vessel dead ahead on a reciprocal course or on their port bow in circumstances which require an alteration to starboard.
There must have been at least half a dozen pepper morays, and we spotted a tiny juvenile boxfish hiding under the starboard side and looking like nothing so much as a bright yellow dice, less than the size of a thumbnail.
With the big radial engines grumbling, the Mallard eased past a starboard handmarker labelled `Bald Head". CORMORANT
Next, fin along the bulwarks on the starboard side, down to deeper water.
The Polar Grinder's steel hull cracked amidships under the weight of that wave, a crack almost an inch wide running from starboard to port. THE SHIPPING NEWS
The wreck lies on its starboard side, with the port railing uppermost at about 23m.
A lone vessel off their starboard, not much larger than them, was pulsing its engine to generating an area in which FTL engines could not be used.
On the OREGON II, neuston nets are deployed off the starboard side of the forward deck with the forward crane which rests in a cradle during the tow.
The starboard engine coughed twice and cut. Bomber
Your inspection may show that the sidelights (red port, green starboard), the white stern light and the white maneuvering light are all in order.
They are installed two on the stern deck and one each on the port and starboard side of the flight deck.
A section of the starboard bulwarks was removed to create a gangway, or opening.
Swimming up the stern will bring you onto the starboard side of the ship.
She was tacking to come around on Indefatigable's starboard side.
We beat the Navy on that in the sense that we saw cruise missile flashes from a guided missile cruiser off to our starboard quarter in the distance at night.
Each sail has a halyard, downhaul and port and starboard sheets, and the eight square sails have three or four buntlines and two clewlines apiece.
Parlier, the most experienced, triaged the patients on the fantail in the order they needed to be evacuated - the most serious first - and passed them forward on the starboard side to Doc Moser.
Suddenly there was a loud bang, sparks flew from a starboard engine and then the engine failed altogether. Times, Sunday Times
Jack, who did not understand this, fared badly, and it was not till the calls piped belay, that he could recover his legs, after having been trampled upon by half the starboard watch, and the breath completely jammed out of his body. Mr. Midshipman Easy
An announcement over the loudspeaker moments earlier had warned sailors to stand clear of the twenty-six-foot motor whaleboat suspended on a davit about ten feet above the starboard deck. The Attack on the Liberty
By 11.30 pm the other ship 's green starboard light could be seen. Titanic - Destination disaster
Right at the front of the bow one can look back along both the upper port and lower starboard sides of the hull.
The boat coming in from the right is on starboard. Times, Sunday Times
Forward and beneath the main saloon is a second head with shower, two large hanging lockers and a cuddy cabin with port and starboard berths.
The missiles slammed into the starboard side of the engineering section.
The dinette is along the starboard side and also converts to a berth.
The helm is forward to starboard and has a single pedestal helm seat mounted atop a tackle locker.
I traveled on and remembered how when I was a boy I'd grow tired of reading stories about pirates and drop my book and run outside to roll down the portside of Olive Street Hill, climb back up and try the starboard side, dreaming the whole time treasures were coins clinking in your hand, joy was buying the next round. Pirate
I slammed the rudder and the boat peeled hard to starboard.
Stenning was there with Fleming, a lighted blowlamp in his hand; they were labouring to get the starboard engine under way. Movie Night
The vessel lay over heavily on the starboard tack.
This was used to correct some minor problems discovered on the starboard side while assembling the port side.
Its charge of langrage swept the French ship from her larboard bow to her starboard quarter, and struck down in an instant twenty-four men. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes
Ascending the starboard side of the stern, there are no nets and it is safe to venture a little further forward to meet the deck near a small pair of mooring bollards.
Northbound ships were of particular concern since they would have dredgers on their starboard side.
When the engines started up, the gorgeous picture swung around until it stood on what is technically called the starboard beam, whereupon one of the engineers called my attention to the fact that we had changed our course. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines
He used to paint his big toenails red and green, to remind him which side was starboard and port. Times, Sunday Times
They were sailing on port / starboard tack .
The ship started listing to starboard, about 10-12 degrees, then it started to right itself.
He detected a ship moving down the starboard side of the submarine.
There are a navigation station and a quarter berth aft along the port side, and galley aft on the starboard side.
Our crew chief said we had external damage on the starboard aft pylon that appeared to be related to some type of explosion.
Heading back towards the line, past the holds and the wheelhouse, the starboard companionway retains a little more of its wooden cover than the port side does.
Starboard or port your helm until at the time calculated the reflection of the sight vane on the pelorus dial cuts on the proper magnetic bearing. Lectures in Navigation
Blue will usually tack her sails to put her on starboard as well. Times, Sunday Times
Wilf gave up his efforts to secure the towline, leaned against the starboard bollard and grinned with enjoyment as he sat there watching his grandfather, who was used to doing things his own way, fume impotently.
He was then told she was in sight on the starboard beam.
The dinette is along the starboard side and also converts to a berth.
The excitement and thrill of this spectacular display of air power drew most of the crew to the starboard side.
If you are coxing a small boat, steer 30° to starboard of the wind direction, at 6-8 knots.
That portion which spanned from the mizzen-mast to the 'midship-house was missing, while the starboard boat on the' midship-house was a splintered mess. CHAPTER XXX
‘Starboard,’ ‘Port,’ ‘Bowsprit,’ and similar indications of a mutinous undercurrent, though subdued, were audible, Bill Boozey, captain of the foretop, came out from the rest. A Holiday Romance
A sailor, in the main rigging, carried away a ratline in both hands, fell head-downward, and was clutched by an ankle and saved head-downward by a comrade, as the schooner cracked and shuddered, uplifted on the port side, and was flung down on her starboard side till the ocean poured level over her rail. CHAPTER XV
The ship listed to starboard
The view to port and starboard along the river from my lookout in the crow's nest was picture perfect.
The main mast top mast was bent to the deck with cordage and sail draping across to starboard.
He opened fire on one of the bombers and saw smoke coming from the starboard engine, but modestly did not claim to have shot it down. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
There is a seven-foot-long V-berth forward by a port head and starboard hanging locker.
We surge round hard aport then astarboard, following the channel, through overfalls and eddies like the Dorris More or Corrie From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
The best views are from the starboard side. Times, Sunday Times
In attempting to close the bomb bay doors, the starboard side was found to be jammed.
The boats, booms, the wheel, capstern, binnacle, and indeed all the upper portions of the ship, were cut to pieces; the bulwarks were destroyed and the starboard side almost beaten in, while the decks, slippery with gore, were literally strewn with the dead and badly wounded. The Two Shipmates
Jim stood on the starboard side of the bridge, as far as he could get from the struggle of the boat, which went on with the agitation of madness and the stealthiness of a conspiracy.
He looked round and in the moonlight saw Mr Ventouris leaning over the starboard quarter and then disappear.
The crew chief was underneath the starboard sponson, trying to unseat the landing-gear pin, when my copilot released the brakes.
One morning the captain told us to look out on the starboard side. Times, Sunday Times

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