Larboard Beam
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Larboard beam. English etymology. Ships tiller and stern chasers. After all this was the side that faced the port allowing supplies to be ported aboard by porters. From middle english laddebord referring to the side of the ship on which cargo was loadedchanged to larboard in the 16th century by association with starboard.
Starboard battery 8 pounders and 18 pounder carronades. Larboard continued to be used well into the 1850s by whalers. The rear right section of a boat. The center right side of the boat.
Formerly larboard was often used instead of port. The first known use of larboard was in the 14th century. This represents a range of wind angles between beam reach and running downwind. Larboard usually uncountable plural larboards archaic nautical the left side of a ship looking from the stern forward to the bow.
N larboard naut the left hand side of a ship to one on board facing toward the bow. A larboard on or pertaining to the left hand side of a vessel. The united states navy followed suit in 1846. Larboard definition is port.
A ship riding in a tide way with the wind two points on. Opposed to starboard. Antony waymouth whg. Larboard is a nearly obsolete term having been superseded by port to avoid liability of confusion with starboard owing to similarity of sound.
Larboard sounds similar to starboard and in 1844 the royal navy ordered that port be used instead. This is from middle english ladebord and the term lade is related to the modern load. Kingston it has been said that the larboard quarter boat was launched by the chief mate james duncan. View of the main deck form the tiller.
The word port is not an original term either as sailors previously used larboard to describe the left side of the ship. A few hours more carried us through and when we saw the sun go down upon our larboard beam in the direction of the continent 5. The center left side of the boat. Over time larboardtoo easily confused with starboardwas replaced with port.
Time traveler for larboard. Example sentences from the web for larboard the breeze still held fair though coming off the land of africa said to lie some twenty leagues away on the larboard beam. Port side1674 john milton paradise lost book 2. See more words from the same century.