The man in front of me, holding his spear above his head with one hand, made a prodigious leap from the boat, caught the planking with his fingers, got toe-hold on a stern-port, and went up over the rail like a wild beast. ❋ Charles Boardman Hawes (N/A)
One night I crawled aft an 'looked in the stern-port. ❋ Unknown (1934)
I heard his voice through the ship's side urging his boatmen to give way, and looking out of the stern-port I saw the boat rounding under the counter. ❋ Unknown (1899)
The only answer was a shot from the stern-port of the Frenchman, and the fight was opened. ❋ Willis J. Abbot (1898)
I was standing aft, close to the taffrail, on the port side, at the moment, and one of the shot came crashing in at the stern-port nearest me, striking the stanchion heavily, and making the splinters fly in all directions, one of them striking me on the left temple, ripping up the skin and baring my poor unfortunate skull for a length of some four inches. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
Thinking thus, he drew his head inside the stern-port, and made his way back into the main cabin, where he found the two mates, with their arms crossed upon their chests, and their heads bowed upon their breasts, asleep. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
Kicking off his boots and stockings, the skipper thereupon, without further ado, mounted the lockers, and passing his body cautiously out of the weathermost stern-port, held on by the edge of the port with one hand, whilst he reached out and felt for the brace-iron with the other. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
Joyce and I got out through the stern-port, and we made for shore again as fast as oars could take us. ❋ Unknown (1883)
Hunter brought the boat round under the stern-port, and Joyce and I set to work loading her with powder tins, muskets, bags of biscuits, kegs of pork, a cask of cognac, and my invaluable medicine chest. ❋ Unknown (1883)
Their poor messmates can have little respect for these pretending Rembrandts and Paganinis; and the happiness of the mess would be considerably improved if authority were given to pitch every such sketch-book and every flute out at the stern-port. ❋ Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 (1862)
They then carried it abaft, and lowered it vertically over the stern-port; then suddenly turned it round, and sat down. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)
“Dat's dem, Mr. Mulford,” Josh at length cried, from the look-out he had taken in a stern-port, where he could see ❋ Unknown (1848)
He opened, as he spoke, a hatch which led to the magazine, and I saw him uncoiling a long line of match, one end of which he placed in the magazine, while he led the other along the cabin to the stern-port. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
"Dat's dem, Mr. Mulford," Josh at length cried, from the look-out he had taken in a stern-port, where he could see over the low bulwarks of the vessel. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
-- "Vy, there's one of them ere midshipmites has thrown a red hot tater out of the stern-port, and hit our officer in the eye." ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)
The first dark night after this newly contrived stern-port was finished, sixteen of the prisoners passed through it into the water, and swam safely on shore, notwithstanding a sentinel was stationed directly above the hole. ❋ Benjamin Waterhouse (1800)
Soon after our arrival at Batavia we proceeded to refit our ships, beginning with the Marquis; but on coming down to her bends, we found both these and the stern and stern-port so rotten and worm-eaten, that on a survey of carpenters she was found incapable of being rendered fit for proceeding round the Cape of Good Hope, on which we had to hire a vessel to take in her loading. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
I could not help thinking of our fine old admiral, and wished that he might be among them; but he was not, for he was writing in his cabin at the time, and when the captain tried to let him know that the ship was sinking, he found the door so jammed by her heeling over that he could not open it, and was obliged to rush aft and make his escape through a stern-port to save his life. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
