port-bow

Again the tiny point of black projected itself through the wrathful blaze a couple of points off our port-bow.

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Pepworth's was on the port-bow, Gun Hill, under Lombard's Kop, on the starboard, Bulwan abeam, Middle Hill astern, Surprise Hill on the port-quarter.

From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

During the trip this guard sighted several score of "subs" but generally their "object port-bow" proved to be a keg that had become prohibition and therefore found itself abandoned in mid-ocean.

The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces William Elmer Bachman

One of the party suddenly pointed out an object on the port-bow, perhaps half a mile off, and drew from us the simultaneous exclamation of "The sea-serpent!"

The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 Various

The man who discovered America two points off the port-bow.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

To obtain a deep-sea sounding on the 'Aurora', the vessel was stopped, turned so as to bring the wind on the port-bow and kept as nearly stationary as possible; the engines being used to balance any drift of the vessel due to wind or sea.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

In such a frame of mind I left the engine-room and mounted to the upper deck, to hear the cry, "Land on the port-bow."

The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Max Pemberton 1906

The nameless ship, of a sudden, ceased her flight, and came almost to a stand some half a mile away on our port-bow.

The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Max Pemberton 1906

We had struck eight-bells, and the men were going down to dinner, when the mate sighted a ship on the port-bow.

The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Max Pemberton 1906

Again the tiny point of black projected itself through the wrathful blaze a couple of points off our port-bow.

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