hull planking

He could make out the seams in her hull planking.

The seams of the hull planking were opening up with the heat of the sun constantly on one side.

Although the hull planking was splintered or sprung all along the length to the stern, no safe opening presented itself.

"Come on, men; we have to cut those masts adrift before they smash through the hull planking.

Wooden bulkheads and hull planking surrounded him.

The hull planking is also poorly preserved, but there were, however, thirteen strakes that may serve for extrapolation to the design of the entire ship.

The hull planking and deck house were salvaged for use in the construction of other vessels at the Palacios Shipyard.

Before this began, some of the timbers required treatment with triammonium citrate to remove residual iron residues in the nail holes of the outer hull planking.

Its purpose is to support the weight of the anchor and keep the anchor secure and outboard of the hull to avoid damaging the hull planking.

It is anticipated that the majority of manufactured hull planking will be issued as Ministry Supplied Material (MSM) to the successful contractor.

The monstrous jaws gaped and closed, there was a sickening, tearing crunch; it rocked its head, almost casually, and bit loose a whole great chunk of the deck and hull planking.

Bamforth laid the keel while in San Francisco, bought copper rivets for the hull planking in Portland, Oregon, and began painting the boat after Pennsylvanian had traversed the Panama Canal.

Only a moment later did he recognize what looked like the inside of Eclipse, minus its hull planking: the keel and ribs of a sailing vessel under construction on one of three timbered ways that inclined toward the unseen water.

There was no chance of keeping the ship afloat, he told Captain Blackman, because several shot had opened up the hull planking in way of the futtocks, and it was impossible to fit shot plugs from inside the ship.

With the heavy carronades then hanging vertically and breaking loose from their slides and tackles, and bulky casks of provisions and dozens of round shot stowed below smashing their way through the hull planking, theKathleen would founder.

A replica, probably from the Revival, circa A.D. 2220; a fine reproduction, artfully carved and fitted and weather-scarred, probably with a small reactor below decks, steel armor under the near-oak hull planking, and luxury accommodations for an operator and a dozen holiday-makers.

For the Challenge, Webb relied on the hull planking as an integral part of the ship's structural strength, and increased the width between frames at the bow and stern of the ship, thus using four fewer frames for a 200 ft. hull, saving about 25,000 lbs.

Since it has no proper keel or substantial stem or stern posts those parts of the boat would have to be reinforced by the introduction of substantial aprons and breasthooks, perhaps augmented by sacrificial stem and stern posts between which the unsupported hull planking could be sandwiched.