midships

The same route was available for first-class passengers forward of midships on B, C, and E decks.
Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic'|British Government
Here we struck on a sandbar with such force of steam and current as to land us almost out of the water from stem to midships.
The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete|General Philip Henry Sheridan
A ketch is a wessel wot has one big mast set well aft about midships an' a little one way aft of the fust one.
Woven with the Ship|Cyrus Townsend Brady
She had the night previous run down a fishing schooner, seeing nothing of her until she struck her midships.
Torrey's Narrative|William Torrey

Then the upright boiler would have to be set in there, a trifle aft of midships, so that the man at the helm could stoke as well.
Egholm and his God|Johannes Buchholtz

British Dictionary definitions for midships

midships

/ (ˈmɪdˌʃɪps) /

adverb, adjective

nautical See amidships

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