Originally Posted by TMOliver

"Disembark"? "Proper English"?

Well, last I looked, a "bark"/barq was a ship or boat during the period when the "___barks" came into common usage (and to top it off, "disembark" was one of those Victorian "overloads" for which the shorter, simpler, equally descriptive but less used in modern times "debark" functions adequately, shorter to write, easier to say. If you want to insist on "disembark" to clarify that you weren't born aboard the vessel, but "embarked" at some previous moment in time, fine.