Port and starboard vessel's starboard side by green and its port side by red. Aircraft are lit in the same way. Port and starboard Port and starboard are nautical and aeronautical terms of orientation that deal unambiguously with the structure of vessels and aircraft. Their structures are largely bilaterally symmetrical, meaning they have mirror-image left and right halves if divided long-ways down the middle. One asymmetric feature is that on aircraft and ships where access is at the side, this access is usually only provided on the port side. To understand which is which, when a person is facing the bow on a
Sauniere (ship) no damage and continued on to Baltimore, Maryland to pick up its next cargo. In December 1985 unionized longshoremen in Providence, Rhode Island picketed "Sauniere" because it unloaded rock salt without union help. On 15 December 1995, the ship ran aground at Fairport, Ohio, again without damage. On 15 September 1996, "Sauniere" grounded on Bay State Shoal in the St. Lawrence River near Brockville, Ontario. The bottom shell plating on the starboard side was damaged and the #1 starboard ballast tank being was holed in three places. After being freed, "Sauniere" sailed to Hamilton, Ontario to unload its cargo and