The crew abandoned ship as the brig's rudder and sternpost were swept away and the bottom planks started to leak.
The spaces left between the bilge strakes and the four large bottom planks were filled by two planks with an irregular outline.
Marie knelt down and prised the bottom plank off the front of the box.
Argonauts were laboring feverishly, with pieces of wood, canvas, and pitch, to patch two holes in her bottom planks.
Gasping for breath, his eyes still stinging from the salt spray, he clung to the boat's bottom planks and looked around.
Eric climbed down into the well and lifted the bottom planks, and there beneath them was a leak through which the water spouted in a thin stream.
The owner of the wagon was identified by 'G.W.R' painted in small letters on the underframe (the chassis) or bottom plank of the body.
Coleman in 1844, which fitted a simple reed organ onto the bottom plank of an ordinary square piano, arranged to be played directly by the keys of the piano.
And they didn't chase us, either, because he knocked a bottom plank out of the other boats with that battering ram he uses for a stick.