Glossary
Terms & Glossaries of Shipping and Trading
Athwartships
Athwartships means a direction across the width of a vessel.
Athwartships means a direction across the width of a vessel. Across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft line of the vessel. quotations to place / fix / stow something athwartships; to pace the bridge athwartships.