starboard-bulwarks

Updated: May 24, 2025

So thinks I, if these men are made fast, this is no place for me to be loose in, and crawled down to my old place in the waist, at the after end of the spare topsail-yard, which was made fast to the starboard-bulwarks, and which extended a little abaft of the main shrouds. If any gentleman can detect a nautical error in that last sentence, I shall feel obliged by his mentioning it.

Henry Kingsley - Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn