1).- When facing forward, the left side of the boat is called 'port" to distinguish and differentiate it from the starboard side of the vessel.
2).- The left side is the port side and the right side is the starboard side.
3).- Portside.
4).- An easy way to remember this, is that "Port" and "Left" have the same number of letters.
5).- When I was very young, I toured an active US Navy ship. In the captain's quarters, his desk had a small, engraved sign facing the visitor's chairs that read, "Port is Left".
See the related Port and Starboard Wikipedia article listed below for more information:
The left side of a boat is called the port. The right side of the boat is called the starboard. The windows around the boat is called portholes.
Either 'overboard' or 'port' fits this incomplete poser.
That depends on orientation. If you are facing the bow of the boat, it would be the port stern of the vessel.
"Sir, ship approaching from the port stern!"
It is called a "ship", a ship has both left and right sides.
...Is "aport": On a ship, while facing forward, the left side of the ship is called "port" and the right side of the ship is called "starboard".
If you actually mean, what is the left hand side of the ship called... It is the port side. It has mostly the same things as the right side of the ship (called the starboard).
If you actually mean, what is the left hand side of the ship called... It is the port side. It has mostly the same things as the right side of the ship (called the starboard).
Port side
The left side on every ship is the port side.
The left side of a ship or any floating vessel is called the portside, and the right is called starboardside.When facing forward (that is in the direction the ship normally moves) on a ship (towards the bow, or pointy end); the left side of the ship is referred to as port. The right side is called starboard. The back of the ship is called the stern.When facing the front of the ship, toward the bow, the left side is Port and the right side is Starboard.Port is Left was the sign prominently placed on the Captain's cabin desk, as well as at the helm, for landlubbers that were working hard to be real sailors.
The left side of a ship or any floating vessel is called the portside, and the right is called starboardside.When facing forward (that is in the direction the ship normally moves) on a ship (towards the bow, or pointy end); the left side of the ship is referred to as port. The right side is called starboard. The back of the ship is called the stern.When facing the front of the ship, toward the bow, the left side is Port and the right side is Starboard.Port is Left was the sign prominently placed on the Captain's cabin desk, as well as at the helm, for landlubbers that were working hard to be real sailors.
That would be called the PORT side of the ship. Right is Starboard.
The port side of a ship is the left side of the ship. It was earlier called as larboard also. But this name has been replaced now as port side.
Port.
A: port.