The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

After-body

Shipbuilding

That part of a ship's body abaft the midships or dead-flat. This term is more particularly used in expressing the figure or shape of that part of the ship.

After-body of a wooden vessel — wales, bilge, counter, false keel and rudder fittings
After-body of a wooden vessel — wales, bilge, counter, false keel and rudder fittings
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