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Starboard is the right-handed side of a vessel as viewed from aft. It is generally accepted to be a corruption of ’steer-board’, the board or oar which projected into the sea from the starboard quarter of old vessels and by which they were steered before the invention of the hanging rudder. The starboard side of a ship used to be the side usually reserved for the captain; he used the starboard ladder when going ashore, all other used the port ladder, his cabin was usually on the starboard side of the ship, etc.
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