Word: starboard
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...steering course 017 from the Square and holding, it for three minutes you find Holden Chapel close on the starboard bow. A small brick building, beautifully proportioned, it is one of the University's most nearly perfect examples of Georgian architecture...
...carrier's first attack was made at dusk, when a TBF attacked a U-boat many miles off the convoy's starboard bow. Depth bombs straddled the fully-surfaced submarine, but it sank with no trace of a definite kill. At dawn next day the planes took off again. Another sub was spotted and attacked. But there was no certain evidence of a kill...
...followed was released by the Navy this week: The seconds dragging by seemed an age. "Jesus, why don't we do something?" muttered a gunner's mate. Nothing but dark waves could be seen ahead. The tension grew. A man with headphones relayed an order to the starboard 3-in. gun: "Load a star shell...
...Kill. The Spencer was turning. The port guns ceased. The sub was dead ahead, so close it could be rammed. But there was no need to ram when it could be smashed with gunfire. The starboard guns took up the battle, blazing at close range. The U-boat's conning tower by now was badly smashed. A lone man, his back toward the Spencer, clung desperately to the conning tower as though being crucified. A shell hit him squarely in the back. He crumpled, slumping down over two other corpses on the narrow deck...
...submarine, crippled, was still dangerous, and its deck guns were firing. On the Spencer's bridge a radioman dropped, clutching his belly. The ship's starboard davit had been smashed by a shell that sprayed fragments of steel over bridge, starboard passage and deck. Two men fell headlong in the passage, others reeled back from their posts...