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

Fashion Pieces

Shipbuilding

The timbers so-called from their fashioning the after-part of the ship in the plane of projection by terminating the breadth and forming the shape of the stern. They are united to the transoms and to the dead-wood.

After-framing of a wooden vessel — fashion piece, quarter-timbers, transoms and stern-post
After-framing of a wooden vessel — fashion piece, quarter-timbers, transoms and stern-post
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