True-port & starboard.
Is a ship hull design and construction method where the bottom and sides of the ship have two complete layers of watertight hull surface.
The hull.
The sides of any ship are "the hull".
It is called a "ship", a ship has both left and right sides.
A 40 cannon ship will have 20 cannons on both sides in order to keep the ship protected on all side.
A bilge is a rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom of the ship and the sides.
A bilge is a rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom of the ship and the sides.
Gunwales (pronounced as 'gunnels') are the top edge of the hulls, or sides, of a water craft.
The ship was old and had sturdy sides, with iron.
Sides of a mountain/ship/hill.
It happened approximately 2am, although as the official enquiries on both sides of the Atlantic concluded that the ship had not split in two, it is difficult to be exact about this.
An ironclad was indeed a ship. They were built in two different ways. Let's take the Moitor and the Merrimac, or CSS Virginia as it was called by the Confederacy. The Monitor was built completely of steel. It was built with a very low draft and instead of the usual placement of guns along the sides of the ship, they built it with a turret in the middle of the ship with two cannon inside. The Virginia was initially a wooden ship. The Confederates covered the wooden hull with iron plating to convert it to an ironclad.