Word: starboard
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...forecastle the observers huddled, backs to the wind, facing her towering superstructure. Off to starboard a destroyer close at hand plowed on in precise formation, grew dim and lost outline as darkness fell. Off to port, hull-down on the horizon and patrolling the area where the shells would fall, another destroyer disappeared except for the slim reaching pencil of her searchlight, the occasional blinking of her signal light...
Fifteen minutes dragged into a half-hour, close to an hour, as the technicians with their gauges settled themselves and made their equipment ready for the test. How would she take it? Would she heel to starboard before the recoil of her broadside? Would it rip her guts? Would the blast dash the laymen observers from the eyes of the ship into...
...dark. A white sheet of spray lifted high over the starboard lifelines and swished down on the deck. From the siren on the foremast came a hoarse groan-ten seconds to go. The loudspeaker took up the count. It came faint, thin and broken to the forepeak: "9-7,6-FIRE...
From North Carolina's port side burst a flaming earthquake-a roar that shattered its way to the marrow of man, a lurid flame that seemed to lick the water for hundreds of yards and lift itself above the ranging top of the foremast. The deck slid to starboard, oscillated to port, leveled off handily, rode steady again...
Woods wirelessed Hong Kong: "FORCED DOWN SUIFU BY JAPS, STARBOARD WING SMASHED. SEND ANOTHER. MOUNTING RUNWAY...