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	Starboard And Larboard - LoveToKnow 1911
		There is much doubt as to the origin of the term and the curious change from laddebord to larboard.
		Owing to the similarity in sound between starboard and larboard, the word port is now used for the left side.
		The substitution of this for the older term was officially ordered in the British navy by an admiralty order of 1844, and in the United States of America by a navy department notice in 1896.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Starboard_And_Larboard (384 words)

	Explorers Lewis & Clark find Tower Rock in Mississippi River, 1803
		Larboard is the port (left) side of a ship as you face forward.
		Lewis thought the land on the larboard side of the river that he was now viewing was even higher than the uplands he had seen the day before.
		The land continued to be high and bold on the larboard side and low and flood prone on the starboard side.
	tower-rock-winery.com /lewis.htm (1632 words)

	Port/Larboard/Starboard (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The counterpart to starboard is larboard, which derives from ladde and bord.
		The problem with these two words was that starboard and larboard were easily confused.
		Why port was used for this is not known for certain, but most sources believe it is because the left-hand side of a ship was the side typically put next to the wharf or port.
	bille.cudenver.edu /dpbille/math/port.html (412 words)

	Larboard - South Seas Companion Cultural Artefact
		Larboard was the name mariners gave to a ship’s left side as seen when looking to the forward part of the ship.
		Objects seen beyond the left side of a vessel were often described as being ‘to larboard’.
		The origins of the name are unclear, but the Oxford English Dictionary suggests that ‘[the] word seems to have meant from “the side at the back of the steersman”; the rudder or steering-paddle of early Germanic ships having been worked over the right side, whence the name stéorbord “steering-side”, starboard.’.
	southseas.nla.gov.au /biogs/P000089b.htm (119 words)

	larboard - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		An archaic version of the term is larboard.
		The term larboard, when shouted in the wind, was presumably too easy to confuse with starboard and so the word port came to replace it...
		In the British Navy it was not until 1844 that larboard was abandoned for...
	encarta.msn.com /larboard.html (96 words)

	Origins of "Port" and "Starboard" - Sailing Anarchy Forums
		It may be that "larboard" was based on words meaning "back side" (since the helmsman would have his back to that side).
		In any case, "larboard" turned out to be far too easy to confuse with "starboard," and was eventually replaced with "port," referring, again, to the fact that the left side was the side over which cargo was loaded in port.
		Port used to be "Larboard", the word "Lar" indicating the loading side, or the side that could be tied up to the dock without damaging the rudder.
	forums.sailinganarchy.com /index.php?showtopic=25914 (2582 words)

	Port, Starboard, Larboard
		The term starboard, the nautical term for the right-hand half of the ship, comes from Old English stéorbord and is a combination of stéor, meaning "steer," and bord, meaning "board." On old ships the rudder or steering paddle would be on the right side of the ship.
		The counterpart to starboard is larboard, which derives from ladde and bord.
		Why port was used for this is not known for certain, but most sources believe it is because the left-hand side of a ship was the side typically put next to the wharf or port.
	www.queenfish.org /noframes/port.html (454 words)

	Twaintimes Notes: Larboard and Starboard
		For centuries seamen had referred to the left side of a ship as the larboard side and the right side as the starboard side.
		In the heat of battle or the teeth of a storm the two words were easily, all to easily, confused.
		He is looking to the left so you think he said larboard and quickly turn the big wheel in that direction.
	twaintimes.net /popup/port.html (334 words)

	The Elements and Practice of Rigging And Seamanship
		The best bower is then placed forward near the bows on the starboard side; the small bower near the bows on the larboard side, a little abaft their respective catheads; and are secured by their stoppers, from the catheads and shank-painters.
		The stopper has one end clinched round the cathead; the other end passes through the ring of the anchor, returns upwards, and leads over a large thumb cleat bolted to the cathead, and is made fast with several turns, and the end hitched round the head-rail and timber-head, on the fore side of the cathead.
		The larboard braces are hauled in forwards, because in that situation, the sails are so braced as to cast the ship's head to starboard, since they make with the keel the most acute angle possible a-starboard forward, and are at the same time a-back.
	www.hnsa.org /doc/steel/part10.htm (12996 words)

	Starboard? Larboard?
		This identifies a high point of land on the larboard side of the boat ("L.S."), just beyond ("psd." = "passed") the upper portion or "head" of an island ("Isd.") on the left.
		Normally, the captains used "larboard" and "starboard" to mean the left and right side of the boat.
		Occasionally, they referred to the left or right banks of the river but this did not necessarily mean the bank on the left or right side of the boat.
	www.lewis-clark.org /content/content-article.asp?ArticleID=1296 (295 words)

	Lewis and Clark Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Passed a small rapid and 15 lodges below the five, and encamped below an island close under the larboard side, nearly opposite to 24 lodges on an island near the middle of the river, and the main starboard shore.
		I then descended through a narrow channel, about 150 yards wide, forming a kind of half-circle in its course of a mile, to a pitch of 8 feet, in which the channel is divided by 2 large rocks.
		We are in view of the ocean, this great Pacific Ocean which we have been so long anxious to see, and the roaring or noise made by the waves breaking on the rocky shores (as I suppose) may be heard distinctly.
	www.inthegorge.com /LewisandClark_Journal.html (2824 words)

	::: The Official Website of the PHILIPPINE NAVY :::
		In Old England, the starboard was the steering paddle or rudder, and ships were always steered from the right side on the back of the vessel.
		Larboard referred to the left side, the side on which the ship was loaded.
		The word port means the opening in the "left" side of the ship from which cargo was unloaded.
	www.navy.mil.ph /trivia3.htm (941 words)

	Journals of Lewis and Clark
		This chain of rocks appears once to have formed a part of those over which the waters tumbled, but in the course of time has been separated from it to the distance of 150 yards, lying parallel to it, and an abutment against which the water, after falling over the precipice, beats with great fury.
		About 90 or 100 yards of this, next the larboard bluff, is a smooth even sheet of water falling over a precipice of at least 80 feet; the remaining part, about 200 yards wide, on my right, forms the grandest sight I ever beheld.
		At a mile and l/2, passed a small rapid stream on the larboard side, which heads in a mountain to the S.E., 12 or 15 miles, which at this time is covered with snow.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/JOURNALS/lewis4.html (12799 words)

	Post Captain: The Cover
		In the lower right foreground is one of the ship's boats on the booms over the waist.The seaman on the left is walking along the larboard gangway, next to some hammock nettings that are covered with canvas.
		The Lively is offically listed as being armed with only a single nine pounder and a 32 pounder carronade on each side of the forecastle, but she did have three ports, so it is not unlikely that she might have carried an extra gun.
		The mast seen is the foremast, with both a forecourse having two rows of reef points, and a fore topsail shown, The yards are braced for the larboard tack, with the wind coming from the larboard side.
	www.hmssurprise.org /Resources/covers/PC.html (471 words)

	Yachting and Boating World forums: Larboard
		Steering was generally by a long oar or "steering board" usually shipped on the opposite side to the one which a ship placed against the quay while berthed for loading.
		"Larboard" was too easily confused with "starboard" in the midst of toiling seas and howling winds, and so the word "portside" - referring to the side of the ship normally placed against the quay, was chosen to replace it.
		It was gradually replaced around 18c as a matter of convention by officers referring to the side on which the entry port (which used to be the ladde-bord) was situated.
	www.ybw.com /forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/1927845/page/0/fpart/all/vc/1 (734 words)

	War of 1812: USS Constitution engages HMS Levant and HMS Cyane 20th February 1815 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At about this time the Cyane luffed-up for the larboard quarter of the Constitution: whereupon the latter, backing astern, was able to pour her whole broadside into the former.
		Seeing this, the Cyane, although without a brace or bowline except the larboard fore-brace, wore and gallantly stood between the Levant and the Constitution: whereon the latter wore also, and raked the Cyane astern.
		To fire her stern-chase guns, and steer at the same time, was impossible, owing to a sad mistake in the construction of this new class of vessel.
	www.maritime-scotland.com /constitution.html (1062 words)

	The Lucifer Cypher
		Frost temporarily swabbed his eyes clear of their blinding curtain of salty blood with a sleeve of his tunic, only to be flattened to the quarterdeck again by a confusion of rigging and blocks that snarled him.
		Frost’s eyes smarted and blurred from the salty blood not completely blotted away, but he spied a gun captain at a long nine, a chase gun, on the forecastle exhorting his gun crew to greater rapidity, the man’s body arched over the iron beast that was his particular charge.
		Frost was dimly aware of the sharp crack of long rifles, the snuffle of musketry, and the ripping as of a piece of silk that was the sound of a Ferguson rifle disgorging its ball as he peered intently at the larboard deck of the British sloop-o’-war.
	www.broadsidespress.com /id12.html (10693 words)

	Ship & Shipbuilding Terminology - Advanced Search: larboard
		Larboard: The old name for the left hand side of a ship.
		It was officially changed to 'port' in 1844, to avoid confusion with starboard.
		Larboard refers to the loading side of a ship, as apposed the steerboard.
	www.ageofsail.net /aoshipwd.asp?sletter=larboard;iword=1 (81 words)

	* Larboard - (Boating): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Larboard: The old name for the left hand side of a ship.
		To port arms is to carry weapons in the left hand.
		There were five boats belonging to the ship: launch, pinnace, jolly-boat, larboard quarter-boat, and gig.
	www.mimihu.com /boating/larboard.html (136 words)

	THE GREAT REPUBLIC, 90 U. S. 20 (1874) -- US Supreme Court Cases from Justia & Oyez
		As soon as I saw her sheer to the larboard, I too pulled to the larboard and was so swung -- all helm -- thinking that she was running off from the shore.
		When she started off to the larboard, I was below her in the current from two hundred and fifty to three hundred yards, and to the larboard of her about the same distance.
		As the Republic was swinging to the larboard, which would increase her distance outside of the Cleona, she must have gone considerably over eight hundred yards to reach the point of collision.
	supreme.justia.com /us/90/20/case.html (3825 words)

	Ship Maneuvers - H.M.S. Surprise
		As the French are "on the larboard bow" heading northwest (on a starboard tack), Surprise must be headed in a southerly direction (See accompanying Chart).
		This is the climax of the encounter, and is perhaps the most difficult to understand (I would greatly appreciate comments).
		The French haul their wind - they wear onto a larboard tack heading ESE away from the British [Chart 5-1, point 6].
	web.mit.edu /hwebb/www/surprise.html (3406 words)

	Dana (1845): Carpenter. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His duty is to work at his trade under the direction of the master, and to assist in all-hands work according to his ability.
		He is stationed with the larboard or starboard watch, as he may be needed, though, if there is no third mate, usually with the larboard.
		In working ship, if he is an able seaman, (as well as carpenter,) he will be put in some more important place, as looking after the main tack and bowlines, or working the forecastle with the mate; and if capable of leading his watch aloft, he would naturally take the bunt or an earing.
	www.bruzelius.info /Nautica/Personnel/Dana(1845)_p153.html (633 words)

	Pulling Boat Oar Commands 1775
		In smaller vessels where beam is not ample enough to allow for two full banks seated side by side, oarsman are staggered behind each other in a single row, but maintain their bank and number identity.
		The Coxswain is stationed in the stern of the vessel with the tiller or steering oar.
		When giving commands to the oarsman, the bank for which it is intended, Larboard or Starboard should precede the order.
	www.hmsrichmond.org /oarcmd.htm (1142 words)

	The Navigators - School Projects - Ship Report
		Out of ten top timbers on the larboard side, near the fore channel, four are sound, one partly rotten, and five entirely rotten.
		On boring into the second futtock timbers from the main hold, close under the beams of the lower deck on the larboard side, we find one sound and two rotten; and on the other side, one sound and one rotten.
		On boring onto one of the second futtock timbers in the cockpit, on each side, we find it to be sound on the starboard, but on the other side rotten: the inside plank on both sides is rotten.
	www.abc.net.au /navigators/schools/ship_project.htm (901 words)

	HMS Guerrière and USS Constitution: 19 August 1812 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At three quarters past four the Guerrière hoisted hers, and at fifty minutes past four opened her starboard broadside at the Constitution; then filled, wore, and on coming round on the larboard tack, fired her larboard guns, "her shot", says Captain Hull, "falling short;" a proof.
		Now the American riflemen in the Constitution's tops had an opportunity of co-operating with their friends on deck; and a most sweeping fire of great guns and small arms was opened upon the British frigate, whose bow guns were all she could bring to bear in return.
		The crew of the latter now prepared to board the Guerrière; but, a well directed shot from a British marine bringing down the American lieutenant of marines while leading forward his party, the attempt was abandoned.
	www.maritime-scotland.com /guerriere.html (1303 words)

	USS Constitution, capture of Cyane and Levant
		On 20 February 1815, a sail was sighted off the larboard bow, and then another one to the west.
		At 1 discovered a sail two points on the larboard bow--hauled up and made sail in chace--At 1/2 past 1 made the Sail to be a Ship's at 3/4 past 1 discovered another Sail ahead--made them out at 2p.m.
		We ranged up on the larboard quarter, within hail, and was about to give her our starboard broadside when she struck her colours, fired a lee gun, and yielded.
	www.history.navy.mil /docs/war1812/const7.htm (1041 words)

	The Elements and Practice of Rigging And Seamanship
		But the ships on the W N W line are on the starboard line of bearing, though running on the larboard tack; and, when they tack together, they will be in order of battle on the starboard tack.
		The distance of the columns should be such as to permit the fleet to reduce itself easily to the third order of sailing, to pass from that to the order of battle.
		The weather fleet may fly off in order of battle on the starboard or larboard tack, while the lee fleet pursues them in the same manner, that is to say, in order of battle likewise and on either tack.
	www.hnsa.org /doc/steel/part11.htm (15631 words)

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