The craft nevertheless is still afloat and, though flat-bottomed, is yet terribly crank, and any sudden movement to port or starboard threatens to capsize the entire outfit.
Miss Edith and Miss Margie will take the starboard stateroom.
Suddenly we heard a fog-horn on our starboard bow.
Captain Blastblow had made as thorough a search in the port as I had in the starboard state-room, and had joined us in the cabin while we were talking about the matter.
He got up at once, and called his starboard fireman.
Before the port boat was off the second mate and the rest of the seamen had piled into the starboard boat, and both were off at nearly the same time.
The captain said Nick had occupied the large state-room on the starboard side, while Cornwood had taken possession of the corresponding one on the port side.
We turned the bend of the river just after the last sail had been set, which gave us the wind over the starboard quarter.
At four o'clock in the morning, when the starboard watch were called, we were off Indian River Inlet.
I being in the starboard or second mate's watch, had the opportunity of keeping the first watch at sea.
I took my place at the starboard after gun, and we all waited for the signal from on shore.
Then the starboard watch board the main tack, and the larboard watch lay forward and board the fore tack and haul down the jib sheet, clapping a tackle upon it, if it blows very fresh.
The carpenter sometimes mustered in the starboard watch, and was an old sea-dog, a Swede by birth, and accounted the best helmsman in the ship.
Our watch haul out the fore, and lay aloft and put two reefs into it, and reef the foresail, and race with the starboard watch, to see which will mast-head its topsail first.
We drifted fairly into the Loriotte, her larboard bow into our starboard quarter, carrying away a part of our starboard quarter railing, and breaking off her larboard bumpkin, and one or two stanchions above the deck.
Accordingly, thestarboard watch went below, and left the ship to us for a couple of hours, yet with orders to stand by for a call.
The starboard watch hauled aft the sheet, and the ship tore through the water like a mad horse, quivering and shaking at every joint, and dashing from its head the foam, which flew off at every blow, yards and yards to leeward.
He fell from the starboard futtock shrouds, and not knowing how to swim, and being heavily dressed, with all those things round his neck, he probably sank immediately.
Well, in an hour more the land was quite plain on the starboard bow, and the mate comes aft again to Leftenant Collins.
The destroyers cut short to make for the scene of action, which held forth and was witnessed to good advantage from the starboard side of the Morvada.
The promenade deck, both port and starboard sides, was in use each day accommodating group after group for half-hour periods of physical exercise.
This brought them to the starboard side, where they saw a hideous scene.
When they were about twelve feet from the ship's side, from which they thrust themselves clear with oars, there came a rush of people, disappointed of places in the starboard boats.
The vessel still steamed, but made slow progress; moreover, the list to starboard was now so pronounced that it was difficult to stand upright.
But if he formed line on the starboard wing, the nearer to the Germans, he would have had to wait some time till Beatty's battle cruisers had drawn clear.
The ship at once took a list to starboard (tilt to the right) so that the deck soon became as steep as a railway embankment.
Moreover, the German line might have concentrated on the starboard wing before the port had taken station, and might have overlapped the whole line afterwards.
The leading ship of the 6th, or starboardwing division, was the Marlborough.
Pulling upon this, they succeeded in getting the edge of the tarpaulin under the starboard side of the flatboat.
He suddenly sprang to his feet and called out hurriedly, but not excitedly, "Starboard sweep, boys.
Explosion caused minor damages after-part of ship and stove in starboard plates of 'No.
Then the starboard guns and the quarter-deck 8-inch commenced, and we had begun to go past those two forts for the second run.
Directly we were clear of Hong-Kong and were on our proper course, we were sent ahead at full speed, and then had not much time to think of anything else, for there was a big loppy sea and a strong breeze on our starboard bow.
I had to go round all the starboard cabins and see that the dead-lights were down, and in the middle watch, which I kept aft on the quarter-deck, I was responsible that they were kept closed.
Stand by for the starboard guns," sang out the First Lieutenant.
The starboard engine had stopped by now, and we lay wallowing with a horrid log-like jerky motion whilst the men tried to get a tarpaulin over the hole in the stern, but did not seem to do any good.
I found that you'd left every oil-cock turned off, and our starboard crank bearings would have been red-hot in a few minutes.
The destroyers seemed at first to be making straight for us too, but almost immediately turned off to starboard and ran into the little harbour we had just left.
Then a man slid down one of the starboard hoists and crawled aft to Dr.
They are refitting thestarboard low-pressure piston-ring, and it won't be ready for another twenty-four hours.
Miss Avon that she is doing remarkably well; and, as he stands by to lay hold of the main sheet when the boom swings over, we are not in much danger of carrying away either port or starboard davits.
And are you quite sure that you know whether the wind is on the port or starboard beam?
Several times both vessels were in extreme danger; and once we sustained a rather heavy pressure, being canted over on the starboard side most unpleasantly.
Starboard it is," he answered after a moment or two, leaning hard on the tiller as he pushed it across.
Wyndham smiled and indicated a faint dark line that melted into the horizon on the starboard hand.
If they were lucky, she would reach far across on the starboard tack, without their shifting a rope.
We were crossing her bows, close-hauled on thestarboard tack.
I expect the brigantine to starboard has a rope out.
In a few moments, sure enough, I made out the loom of what looked a large ship, out on the starboard beam.
Suddenly I caught sight of the smudge of her, and perceived she was heading away on her course; she was out on our starboard beam.
We, on the other hand, rested upon the liquid ebony of the ocean with square yards, the mizzen furled, the starboardclew of the mainsail hoisted, and the greater number of our staysails down.
The most alarming part of our situation was the fact that of the two boats belonging to the Halbrane, one had been stove in when we grounded, and the other, the larger of the two, was still hanging on by its tackles to the starboard davits.
Dirk Peters, Hardy, Martin Holt and Endicott, the latter with his black face quite vacant, were clinging to the starboard shrouds.
On thestarboard side the operation would be easy enough, because the Halbrane had a list to the opposite side.
She listed to starboard with her stern raised and her bow lowered.
James West was looking out through his glasses to starboard at an object floating two or three miles away, and several sailors, hanging over the side, were also curiously observing it.
We tackled the Redoubtable with the starboard guns, and the Bucentaur and Santissima Trinidad with the port guns.
From this position she rolled towards the starboard side of the ship and squeezed herself between a gun-carriage and the bulwarks, until she got into the porthole.
He shut his eyes, smiled benignly, and delivered a series of heavy puffs from the starboard side of his mouth.
The course skirted the mountainous coast of Mexico, which showed mistily on the starboard horizon.
Down, down she went over on her starboard side, like a tall reed bent by the wind.
Yes, by all means--haul up a couple of points on the starboard tack.
Back your larboard oars, pull up your starboard oars, my men," shouted Linton.
Several of the officers were collected together on the poop, looking towards it, as the brig now lay up on the starboard tack.
Stand by with the foremost starboard gun," cried Mr Saltwell, as they did so.
Lower the starboardquarter boat, and pick up the man in the water.
Scarcely had he spoken, when another shot came, which cut away the topmast starboard shrouds.
We should--starboard the helm a point my lads," exclaimed the master.
I took the channel between the nearest island and the mainland, which were about one mile apart, leaving all the islands on the starboard side.
One sea broke away the spare yards and spars out of the starboardmain chains.
I sailed between these islands where I found no bottom at twelve fathoms; the high mountainous island with a flat top and four rocks to the south-east of it, that I call the Brothers, being on my starboard hand.
Pollard had his hand on the sail to swing it to starboard when Constance put the tiller over to bring the boat's head up against the wind.
On the starboard quarter they caught a confused rushing noise, like the subdued murmur of a millrace.
But, with the utter malignity of fate, though they might have swung her to port, she would not budge a yard to starboard, for now both wind and waves assailed her most vehemently on the starboard quarter.
Beneath some oars ranged along the starboard side he could see several tins, such as contain biscuits and compressed beef.
I noticed that she carried a small boat hanging in davits on the starboard side, and a large boat abaft the little caboose or kitchen that stood like a sentry-box forward.
Behind a chair on the starboard side of the table crouched the figure of Mariana.
She was, in fact, forging ahead fast and rounding away into the west in pursuit of the American, leaving my boat in consequence astern of her out upon her starboard quarter.
The ships were now steaming in double column, line ahead, and, having left Smith's Knoll well on the starboard hand, were running on a southerly course to clear Winterton Ridge.
An alert bos'n's mate, awaiting the signal, piped the starboard watch.
Away on the starboard hand was a seemingly interminable range of frowning cliffs, the nearmost being but two or three miles distant.
It was indeed fortunate that the man was still alive, not only had he escaped having his back broken on striking the water, but he had missed the rapidly revolving starboard propeller.
The two junior officers made their way for'ard, past the starboard guns in their isolated and closely-sealed steel turrets, until they reached the foremast.
Almost the next instant he was aware that a similar peril threatened the Calder, for a British destroyer, hit in her engine-room, circled erratically to starboard across her bows.
So intent was the lieutenant-commander upon his intended prey that he had failed to notice the proximity of a black-and-white can buoy now almost on the starboard bow.
About two miles on the starboard hand, and steaming rapidly, were the two Dreadnoughts that Sefton had noticed on the previous day.
So, standing on thestarboard extremity of the bridge, the lieutenant-commander took his craft into the second phase of the destroyer attack.
Suddenly one of the look-outs raised the shout of: "Submarine on the starboard bow, sir!
Then the starboard engine-room was swept by the explosion of a shell, increasing to a terrible extent the casualties amongst the courageous "black squad".
They gave Menzies a starboard deck cabin--that was on the wharf side--and he sat watching the wharf through his porthole for the entire night.
But as he rounded the vessel's stern he saw that her starboard side was lighted up, and he ceased rowing, sitting motionless and silently holding water, till the boat began to drift back into the obscurity down-stream.
The starboard deck light was on and by its light Merriman could see the manager take his leave, cross the gangway, pass up the wharf and enter the shed.
As on that occasion, the starboard side of the ship, next the wharf, was dimly lighted up.
The starboard boat and a narrow strip of deck were lighted up, but the port boat was in shadow.
Just as the manager began to speak he heard steps on the gangway which passed on board and a man began to climb the starboard ladder to the upper deck.
In a moment Benson followed down the starboard or lighted side.
I looked down into the water on our starboard bow, and I soon found the place where the brig had been stove in, probably by some water-logged piece of wreckage.
The shores of Sweden were in sight all the time, and at three o'clock in the afternoon land was also seen on the starboard bow.
Do you know what island that is on the starboard hand.
The First Part of the Starboard Watch, Consisting of Eighteen Seamen.
If the boat had continued to back as at first, she would probably have escaped, for the steamer put her helm a-starboard a little, in order to favor her manoeuvre.
The second part of the starboard watch were on duty, but nearly every person belonging to the ship was on deck, watching the distant light, which assured them they were on the coast of Norway.
The First Part of the Starboard Watch, Consisting of Eight Seamen.
So I cut down some trees and rigged a spar on the starboard and another on the port side, and fooled away upward of three hours trying to spar her off.
But this was immediately followed by the glad shout: "Land aboard the starboard transom!
With a rattling song the starboard watch bent to their work and hove the cable short, then got the anchor home, and our bark moved off with a stately stride, and soon was bowling along at about two knots an hour.
