What is "midships"

Usage examples of "midships".

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.

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.

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.

Fortunately, they'd all done well in null-grav training, and there were no embarrassing gaffes as, one-by-one, they swung themselves into Hexapuma's midships boat bay's one standard gravity.

That meant that the gunboat was less than a dozen yards from the sixteen-inch midships torpedo tube, armed and flooded.