If a window in a ship/boat is called a port hole, why are the windows on the R/H/S of the ship/boat not called starboard holes?
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Posted 1 year ago #
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wikipedia has a resonable explanation.
It even describes port holes on submarines. Although, it doesn't mention that these should, generally, not be opened.
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Porthole, not port hole. Does that answer your question?
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What about yachts?
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from guns- portholes were originally for guns and when they became windows the name stuck - same issue though half the portholes were on either side no idea of the origin of that
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Read wikipedia and i found the side scuttles(american term) but it doesn't say why they're called portholes on the starboard side of the ship or if it's for a completely different reason.
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'port' also means a hole giving access which is where the 'port hole' thing came from I suspect.
where as port/starboard come from;
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/explore/sea-and-ships/facts/faqs/customs-and-origins/port-and-starboard
Same word, two different meanings...
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larboard
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wikipedia has a resonable explanation.
It even describes port holes on submarines. Although, it doesn't mention that these should, generally, not be opened.
Hopefully submariner training is more thorough than wikipeadia.Posted 1 year ago # -
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Port, as in portal.
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Portal makes more sense.
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they're so you can see when you're in port.
That's why.
When you're out at sea they're technically known as "out at sea holes"
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Hopefully submariner training is more thorough than wikipeadia.
It would appear not.]
HMS Thetis was lost off Liverpool with most of her crew when someone "opened the door" underwater. Tragically she was brand new & on sea trials. A test cock (hole) had been painted over, so the crew didn't realise that the torpedo tube that they opened was open to the sea at the other end.
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