🔍 Key Concepts

• Standard lifeboat numbering system on ships with boats on both sides • How lifeboats are numbered from forward to aft and port vs. starboard designation • Difference between a plain number and a number with a side designation (e.g., PORT or STARBOARD)

💭 Think About

• Visualize the starboard side of the vessel from bow to stern and imagine where lifeboats 1, 3, and 5 might be placed if lifeboats are numbered in order. • Think about whether odd or even numbers are usually used on the starboard side, and how that affects the number assigned to the middle boat. • Ask yourself: when a question already specifies "on the starboard side," does the official designation usually repeat the side name in the number, or just use the number itself?

✅ Before You Answer

• Verify which side (port or starboard) traditionally carries odd-numbered lifeboats under international practice. • Confirm that lifeboats are numbered from forward to aft, not from the middle or from aft to forward. • Check whether the formal lifeboat designation typically includes the word STARBOARD when the context has already specified the side.