. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 14 Wood. R. D., & Co 7 Zephoh Chemical Compound Co. . .; is Rffi9fi::EiRiiMeriiR Vol. XIX. Copyright by Angus Sinclair Co.— J906 A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock 136 Liberty Street, New York, October, 1906 No. 10 Railway Steamship. nieaiiing tlie side which was usually why the larboard side, unencumbered When looking at a beautifully pro- put against the wharf in order to lade with the fixed oar was brought up to portioned steamship like the one or load the ship.
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 14 Wood. R. D., & Co 7 Zephoh Chemical Compound Co. . .; is Rffi9fi::EiRiiMeriiR Vol. XIX. Copyright by Angus Sinclair Co.— J906 A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock 136 Liberty Street, New York, October, 1906 No. 10 Railway Steamship. nieaiiing tlie side which was usually why the larboard side, unencumbered When looking at a beautifully pro- put against the wharf in order to lade with the fixed oar was brought up to portioned steamship like the one or load the ship. It was, in fact, the the wharf. Starboard comes from the we present tliis month, the ordinary side always put nearest the port as dis- Anglo-Saxon word, steor, a rudder, railroad man probably thinks oi some tinguished from that toward the open and bord, side. The starboard side appropriate nautical terms, such as sea. This word was years ago of- was the rudder side and the port side he might liear if on board. Two very ficially clianged to port, in order was the one over which the loading. SHE WALKS THE WATERS LIKE A OP LIFE. AND SEEMS TO DARE THE TO STRIFE.—S>tow. interesting words used in connectionwith steering come to mind, the originof which is interesting. These wordsare Port and Starboard. In formerdays the port or left hand side of thevessel when one looks toward the bow,was called the larboard side, and theword is said to be derived from , leer, empty, but laterfrom the Middle English laddebord, to prevent confusion with the word ofsimilar sound, starboard, used to desig-nate the right side of the ship. Theword, port, was, therefore, an appro-priate change from larboard. The word, starboard, comes from thedays when the bow and stern were ofsimilar shape and the ancient galleon wassteered by an oar at the stern, fastenedin place over the right side, and this is and unloading was done. Modernship construction has changed themethod
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