The wardroom

[Michael]

[Randi]

Coast Guard Medevacs Man From Fish Processing Vessel Near Cold Bay

Cold Bay (1)	55.19167	-162.56944
Cold Bay (2)			See Puale Bay
Cold Bay Pier

Puale Bay

57.72833

-155.53250

[Michael]

Part of an email I got from the Science Team this morning...

We (the science team) have now entered into the second phase of the "20CRv3 Wind Data Assimilation Project", which will involve primarily utilizing and examining the wind direction observations and the wind speed observations from the OldWeather ships, as well as making comparisons of the wind direction observations and the wind speed observations from the OldWeather ships with the wind direction observations and the wind speed observations from the 20CRv3 (the 20th Century Reanalysis, Version 3) for different years. For the second phase of this particular research project, we also will be creating another (second) set of IMMA data files from the OldWeather "WX.tsv" files that contain both wind direction observations and wind speed observations, so we will be converting the meteorological data from TSV file format to IMMA (International Meteorological Maritime Archive) file format, and all of the created IMMA data files will have both the wind direction data and the wind speed data included in them.

[Randi]

[Randi]

Navy Punishes More Than 20 Sailors Over Fire on the Bonhomme Richard
The punishments included reprimands for the former leadership of the warship, which was destroyed in 2020 at a base in San Diego.

[Randi]

You wonder about our crews?

8 January 2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam

[Michael]

[Randi]

1846 - Secretary of the Navy George Bancroft issues the General Order to
change Larboard to Port for identification of the left side of a sailing vessel.

The term starboard derives from the Old English steorbord, meaning the side on which the ship is steered. Before ships had rudders on their centrelines, they were steered with a steering oar at the stern of the ship on the right hand side of the ship, because more people are right-handed. Since the steering oar was on the right side of the boat, it would tie up at the wharf on the other side. Hence the left side was called port. The Oxford English Dictionary cites port in this usage since 1543.

Formerly, larboard was often used instead of port. This is from Middle English ladebord and the term lade is related to the modern load. Larboard sounds similar to starboard and in 1844 the Royal Navy ordered that port be used instead. The United States Navy followed suit in 1846. Larboard continued to be used well into the 1850s by whalers.

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On the other hand, according to The Sailor's Word-Book, 1867:

LARBOARD. The left side of a ship, when the spectator's face is towards the bow. The Italians derive starboard from questa borda, "this side," and larboard from, quella borda, "that side;" abbreviated into sta borda and la borda. Their resemblance caused so many mistakes that, by order of the admiralty, larboard is now thrown overboard, and port substituted.

[Maikel]

Funny, in Dutch starboard is called stuurboord.
Literally translated steer-board.

Port is bakboord in Dutch.
Bak is old Dutch for rug, your back.
So, back-board, because you were standing with your back towards that side of the ship when steering.

Edit: formatted Dutch words in italic.

[Randi]

That sounds pretty convincing to me.

[Randi]

Came here to post something else and remembered that in French bâbord is port.
Starboard is tribord.

According to Larousse, they both come from the Dutch.

[Randi]

According to DANFS (Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships):
"The high fuel consumption of early steam engineering plants, at a time when the United States lacked overseas coaling stations, made it necessary to retain sails for cruising into the late nineteenth century."