larboard 

If you're on a ship and facing the bow (the front of the ship), larboard is to your left. Larboard is the left side of a ship. The more common and modern term used instead of larboard is 'port'. They mean the same thing but 'larboard' is traditional. Port was officially adopted by the Royal Navy in 1844 because people could confuse larboard with starboard when a storm was up and the winds whipping words every which way.

Everybody moved to the larboard cannons as we approached the massive 1st rate.

larboard by Socrates912 September 5, 2009