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Originally Posted by Wolferz
Wrong...
The front is the prow. The back is the poop deck. And those little round windows are portals.
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Maybe you should go to sailor school. "Prow" can be used in place of "bow", but is much less common than it was in sailing ship days.
The Poop Deck is the officers' deck, above the captain's cabin on a sailing ship. The aft end of the ship is indeed the stern.
A portal is a doorway, usually a big one, commonly the entrance to a church. There are no portals on a ship, except perhaps the entrance to the grand ballroom on an ocean liner. The "little round window" is a porthole.