false keel

The false keel could easily be replaced when it became damaged.

"The first ledge she went over stripped the false keel off her.

Thought she might have a false keel.

Many captains requested additions to the false keel of these frigates to remedy this.

The dory didn't have a mast or even a mast partner on the false keel.

In addition to the new engine, various changes were made to the plane's design: a larger rudder, smaller false keel, and different wing fillets.

The false keel was a timber, forming part of the hull of a wooden sailing ship.

For the voyage across the Atlantic, the gunboats received a dandy rig, false keels, and lee boards.

They enlarged the dingy by raising the gunwales, adding a false keel and decking it over.

She sufferred the loss of her false keel and minor damage done to her copper sheathing.

She received extensions to her gripe and another 4 inches onto her false keel, suggesting a lack of weatherliness as built.

She grounded on a shoal in the Inland Sea on 15 July and lost her false keel.

The hull was constructed primarily of Aleppo pine, except for the tenons and the false keel which were made of oak.

On 6 February 1846 she was docked at Woolwich to have a false keel fitted to reduce her excessive rolling motion.

En route for Corfu, she had knocked off part of her false keel at Cape Blanco.

She lost her rudder and part of her false keel, but was otherwise undamaged, and was removed from the bar without difficulty.

This refit also strengthened the breastwork and upper decks, added another watertight bulkhead as well as a false keel.

Jack had also overcome the difficulty about the keel, by pinning to it a FALSE keel.

A couple of small retractible windwheels, vaned and pivoted, jutted beneath the gondola, evidently serving the purpose of a false keel.

The false keel was intended to protect the main keel from damage, and also protect the heads of the bolts holding the main keel together.

First, her bottom struck a coral head off La Paz, Baja California Sur, and was pulled free only after three days aground during which she lost her false keel.

The first experiments with copper sheathing were made in the late 1750s: the bottoms and sides of several ships' keels and false keels were sheathed with copper plates.

Koch's hull was protected by a belt of ice-floe resistant flush skin-planking (made of oak or larch) along the variable water-line, and had a false keel for on-ice portage.

They had just beat off the rudder and lost some of the false keel, but Joe Harris of Manton would tow them in and put them to rights as soon as she floated.

Typically 6 inches thick for a 74-gun ship in the 19th century, the false keel was constructed in several pieces, which were scarphed together, and attached to the underside of the keel by iron staples.