The centre of a boat

Usage examples of midship.

Gleeful Frau Gnahb, humming through her teeth, spins the wheel, spokes blurring, prow swinging over aiming for midships.

Cloudcroft drew abreast of their hiding place, Larson Sands, Halley Trevanon, Ross Crandall, and Kelvor Reese climbed into the midships hydrogen lock and launched themselves one by one into the night.

Altara to finish her discussion with the blond Norland cargo-master, he studied the side paddle wheels, protruding another five cubits from the gently rounded midships curve of the trader, forward of the funnels.

Blood hit caused scattered overloads on the sci-deck, blowing sparks over the heads of everyone midships.

Descending to the midship deck, Cugel dropped the blue silk mainsail from its brails and sheeted home the clews.

She had already been bilged in the midships, and with her starboard bow forced by the waves against the reef – the largest and most dangerous reef along the entire coast of Kent – it was only a matter of seconds before she shipped a dozen tons of water through her hull and then heeled clumsily on to her beam-ends.

There was no one in sight, but he heard a fiddle and what sounded like an accordion, and what hed thought was just an anchor light was also the gleam of light from the scuttles of a low, midships deckhouse.

There was no one in sight, but he heard a fiddle and what sounded like an accordion, and what he'd thought was just an anchor light was also the gleam of light from the scuttles of a low, midships deckhouse.

A copper dome midships, men clustered round it, two sweating at handles which they worked up and down like a suction-pump in the East Anglian fields.

And then, sud­denly, I couldn't do it all: now that the need for secrecy and stealth was over someone had switched on the cargo loading lights and the midships and foredecks were bathed in a brilliant dazzle of white.

Humming, singing, he turned to the overhead rack that ran the length of the shop and pulled down wood ribbands, tacked them the length of the frame, from forehook to midship bend to the afterhook timbers.

I went past workers, stepped over lines, ducked under staging, squeezed by shapes, through the access hole in the midship bulkhead, up the jack ladder to the third deck, up another ladder to the fourth deck, headed aft.

For Leading Seaman Doyle, crouched miserably into the shelter of the for'ard funnel, watching the pinched agony, the perpetual shivering of his young midships pom-pom crew, it was pity.

He lashed the small rubber boat to the lifelines midships where it could easily be cut loose.

There were four such lanterns, ornately runed as a Sarakkon's head, one each on the high, arching prow and slender aft, two more midship, at port and starboard.