] At last, however, the craft was passing, showing her port side, not very far distant, to be sure.

Although struck in a dozen places and her port side batteries out of commission, she continued to play on the Queen Mary and the Indefatigable with her forward turret guns.

Soon after 6 o'clock in the morning the Aboukir suddenly felt a shock on the port side.

I was abaft the cabin on the port side when Dorothy called my namea sudden accent of terror in her voice.

A seaman went forward with an axe to cut the lashings of the one on the port side.

The usual procedure of abandoning ship was carried out, and shortly after the boats had left, the periscope of a submarine was sighted steering for the port side.

The submarine passed close under the stern, steered to the starboard side, then recrossed the stern to the port side, and when she was some fifty yards off on the port beam her conning tower appeared on the surface and she steered to pass round the stern again and towards one of the ship's boats on the starboard beam.

The Intrepid had picked up the wire of a twin mine, got caught badly on the port side, but had luckily escaped to starboard.

The cannon, as if enraged, smashed a carronade on the port side; then, again seized by the invisible sling which controlled it, it was hurled to the starboard side at the man, who made his escape.

Frank himself had no more intention of retiring to his bed than had Andy, but continued to keep watch and ward until he saw the first peep of daylight over the port side of the vessel.

In the scuffle I had lost the crucifix, but I had also escaped from the man who had grabbed me, and, while I was in a panic and did not know where I was going, I hoped to be able to regain the ladder on the port side and get back to my room once I had thrown my assailant off my track.

With the handle of the belaying-pin gripped in one hand, and the knife in the pocket of my nankeen jacket ready for an emergency, I felt my way along the port side toward the foot of the companion, determined to get out of the stinking hole and try my chances in the open.

He grinned at me as I entered through the door on the port side.

" The raft went about clumsily on the other tack and heeled over so that her port side was deep in the water, which afforded us good protection from the island.

At the last attack, the Whitehead was directed against the after part of the hull on the port side in wake of the boilers.

In previous experiments this year the ironclad was attacked on the port side, which had been specially strengthened for the occasion, and the result was a victory for the defense.

I walk along the port side of the deck until I am near the foremast, and then I can see a small buoy that the sailors are hoisting in.

Next comes the foremast, and between that and the fore hatch the galley and winch; on the port side of the fore hatch are stalls for four poniesa very stout wooden structure.

We had thought the ponies on the port side to be pretty safe, but two of them seem to me to be groggy, and I doubt if they could stand more heavy weather without a spell of rest.

The open water extended just round the corner and the ship made fast in the narrow angle made by the sea ice with the glacier, her port side flush with the surface of the latter.

Beached in a little bay, with her topmasts gone and the hulk lying over on the port side, was a brig.

An instant later the two ships scraped together, and the starboard bower anchor of the Gloire caught the mizzen-chains of the Leda upon the port side.

"Ahoy, sir!" sang out the mate's voice high overhead, and between two blasts of the whistle, and just at this moment a specka small blur hove out of the grey on the port side.

Fortunately it hung to the port side with a rather steep slant to the rail, which was not high.

Then came another crash of timbers on the port side.