The Nautical Encyclopedia

Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

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Overboard

Sea Terms

Over the side; out of the ship.

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2026 Editor's Note: 'Man overboard!' is still the exact alarm, with buttons for it on every chartplotter — and going overboard became everyone's phrase for excess. The drill this era formalized is taught unchanged. See man overboard. (Ed: BR 2026-06-14)

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