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When you stand on the ship and face the bow, the right-hand side is "starboard". The left-hand side is "port".
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What do you call the right side of a ship called?
The right side of a ship is called the star-board side.
What do sailors call the left side of ship?
port starboard is the right side
What do sailors call the right side of a ship?
its called star-board side...
What do you call the right and left side of a ship?
Left is Port.Right is Starboard.
What do you call the front of a ship?
The bow of the ship (sometimes the stem, as in "stem to stern") is at the front, and the stern is at the back. The left side is the port side, and starboard is the right side.
What is something that are right and left of a ship called?
In very old sailing vessels, the ship didn't have a rudder built into the ship; instead, a long oar-shaped "Steering board" was mounted near the stern of the ship, and generally on the right side. This steering board could be damaged if it banged into the dock, and so generally the ship came to the pier with the left side of the ship. We now call the left side the "port" side of the ship, and the right side is the "steering board" or "starboard" side.
What is the called of the right side of a ship?
The right hand side of a ship, when stood looking towards the bow is starboard.
When facing forward on a ship starboard is always facing what side?
right side of the ship
What is the right hand side of a ship called?
The right hand side of a ship, when stood looking towards the bow is starboard.
What is the starboard part of the ship?
As you stand on a ship and face the prow, the left hand side is called Port and the right hand side is called Starboard.
What do you call a window on the side of a ship?
porthole
Which side of ship is port side and which is starboard side?
The word starboard comes from Old English steorbord, which means the side from which the ship is steered. Earlier before ships had rudder on their center line to steer them they were steered using the rows. Most of the rowers were right handed, so it was common for the ships to have bigger oars on its right side to assist in steering the ship. So naturally the right side of the ship was called steorbord side of the ship. The ship would naturally berthed on the left side to avoid damage to the large oars on the right side. Earlier the left side of the ship used to be called larboard side, but it was easy to get confused in high winds between starboard and larboard. So larboard side was replaced by port side. In short the right side of the ship is called the STARBOARD SIDE and the left side of the ship is called PORT SIDE.
