Then back to port—
The left side of a ship is called port in steering, that the helmsmen may not mistake larboard for starboard. In all large ships, the tiller, (or long bar of timber, that is fixed horizontally to the upper end of the rudder), is guided by a wheel, which acts upon it with the powers of a crane or windlass.
[Page 108], l. 3.
Poop, bow.
Poop, from the Latin word puppis, is the hindmost and highest deck of a ship. The bow is the rounding part of a ship’s side forward, beginning at the place where the planks arch inwards, and terminating where they close at the stem or prow.
[Page 108], l. 19.
... when past the beam it flies.
On the beam, implies any distance from the ship on a line with the beams, or at right angles with the keel: thus, if the ship steers northward, any object lying east, or west, is said to be on her starboard or larboard beam.
[Page 123], l. 20.
... still they dread her broaching-to.