outwardmost

If the admiral put up a jack [4] - flag on the flagstaff on the mizen topmast-head and fire a gun, then the outwardmost ship on the starboard side is to clap upon a wind with his starboard tacks aboard, and all the squadron as they lie above or as they have ranked themselves are presently to clap upon a wind and stand after him in a line.

Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. 1888

And if the admiral make a weft with his jack-flag upon the flagstaff on the mizen topmast-head and fire a gun, then the outwardmost ship on the larboard side is to clap upon a wind with his larboard tacks aboard, and all the squadrons as they have ranked themselves are presently to clap upon a wind and stand after him in a line.

Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. 1888

The outwardmost of them beareth E. by N. northerly; and off its northern point is a shoal half a league distant, on which the sea is seen to break, at which time the east point of Jacatra bears east-southerly, depth seventeen and eighteen fathoms, and all the way out from twenty to fourteen fathoms.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784