Larboard Poems - Poems about Larboard

...shore leave The ship, in the bay, had a load of grain from the fertile soil of Ukraine, loaded in Odesa, and sent on its way across the Black Sea. In the Dardanelles, a stop for inspections to......Read the rest...

...Eight bells. Starboard watch. Tightened up another notch. Holy upheaval rages ‘neath a cathedral sky. Losing way as the wind whips up the spray. Stormy tormentors rubbed salt in my one good eye.......Read the rest...

...Chase the breakers out of the harbour before the customs boat appears. Strike the sails and tack to larboard then comes the old familiar fear. Will they run us, or will they gun us? Damn these ......Read the rest...

...Many now, the years have passed, Since I found my heart at sea, And never have I shared the tale That I now will grant to Thee ... We'd been a-sail for fifty weeks......Read the rest...

...Captain Waller Good Aussie, Captain Waller, from his deck chair he would holler, (on the bridge) As the Stuka dive bomber, (German ju87) dropped a bomb away, Harrrrd a port or or harrrd a starb......Read the rest...