This document discusses gyroscopic effect in ship pitching. It defines key ship terminology like bow, stern, port, and starboard. It explains that pitching is the up and down motion of a ship about its transverse axis. The direction a ship steers due to gyroscopic effect depends on the direction of spin of the gyroscope, the observer's location on the ship, and whether the ship is pitching up or down. For example, if observed from the bow and the gyroscope is spinning clockwise as the ship pitches up, the ship will steer towards the port side.