{"id":69,"date":"2015-08-24T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T10:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/?p=69"},"modified":"2021-03-16T09:16:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T09:16:05","slug":"terminology-describing-the-position-of-an-object-from-on-board-a-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/terminology-describing-the-position-of-an-object-from-on-board-a-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminology: Describing the position of an object from on board a ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/vimeo.com\/522361450&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/Describing_Positions_r.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-145\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/Describing_Positions_r.png\" alt=\"Describing_Positions_r\" width=\"873\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/Describing_Positions_r.png 873w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/Describing_Positions_r-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/Describing_Positions_r-246x146.png 246w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/Describing_Positions_r-50x30.png 50w, https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/08\/Describing_Positions_r-126x75.png 126w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When on board a ship, you may need to describe the position of an object from the ship (e.g. a lighthouse, or another ship). The following are the terms used :<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Off the Port Quarter<\/p>\n<p><strong>B<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Off the Port Beam or Abeam<\/p>\n<p><strong>C\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Off the Port Bow<\/p>\n<p><strong>D<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Astern<\/p>\n<p><strong>E<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ahead<\/p>\n<p><strong>F<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Off the Starboard Quarter<\/p>\n<p><strong>G<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Off the Starboard Beam or Abeam<\/p>\n<p><strong>H<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Off the Starboard Bow<\/p>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stern<\/p>\n<p><strong>J<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bow[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/vimeo.com\/522361450&#8243;][vc_column_text] When on board a ship, you may need to describe the position of an object from the ship (e.g. a lighthouse, or another ship). The following are the terms used : A\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Off the Port Quarter B\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Off the Port Beam or Abeam C\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Off the Port Bow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10-1-1-2-terminology-describing-the-position-of-an-object-from-on-board-a-ship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}