midships

The same route was available for first-class passengers forward of midships on B, C, and E decks.

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.

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.

She had the night previous run down a fishing schooner, seeing nothing of her until she struck her midships.

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.