On Aug 11, 9:36 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote

"Starboard is a corruption of the Alglo-Saxon steorbord (steer board)
which hung over the right-hand side of the vessel.

The left hand side was known as larboard (loading side).

In 1844, the British Admirality officially changed the term larboard
to port which was quickly adopted by the US, French, Spanish and
German Navy."

Oh these Anglo Saxons claim too much! Scandanavians were trotting
around the globe in long ships in 800 A.D. when the anglo saxons were
floating around on logs in the Thames river wondering what was on the
other side.

The word starboard for a ship's right side comes from the an old
Norse word for steeringboard which was always on the right side of the
ship. The left side was called the larboard which comes again from
old Norse meaning the loading side. Those confounded English changed
it to the "Port side."