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

Planking

Shipbuilding

Covering the outside of the timbers with plank sometimes quaintly called skinning, the plank being the outer coating, when the vessel is not sheathed.

View of outside planking, timbers and ceiling
View of outside planking, timbers and ceiling
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