Word: starboard
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...boat station was Starboard 5. ... Near this boat station there was a companionway which leads over No. 3 hatch, and it was here that the second torpedo had struck us. The boards covering this hatch had been blown off by the force of the explosion, and there was a deep yawning hole...
...Yorkshire was listing to starboard and something seemed to be wrong with the life boat, as it did not appear...
Soon we could see the navigation lights, and in another minute a signal was ordering us to come to the starboard side...
From the lookout came a new alarm: Two more enemy sighted. Light cruiser. Heavy cruiser. Starboard abeam...
...screen behind which Formose escaped. Meanwhile the other two-now identified as the light Achilles (7,030 tons) and the heavy Exeter (8,390 tons) -were flanking out to sea. Ajax apparently did the same, astern of Spee. This meant two disadvantages for the German -shoals and shore to starboard, glaring rising sun behind the enemy to port. Captain Langsdorff gave the order to work out to sea, into deeper water...