Yes, starboard is the right side, but back then an order to starboard actually meant to turn the ship to the left, AKA port and vice versa. Sometime in history maritime law was changed and an order to starboard now meant the ship would be turned to her starboard instead of the opposite.
it is conspired otherwise than said. add the vision of the unsinkable aspect of been fool enough for the detour experiment for the time, adds unthinkable view of the natural selection of deaths, almost profitable for some.