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

Stern-post

Shipbuilding

The principal piece of timber in the stern frame on which the rudder is hung, and to which the transoms are bolted. It therefore terminates the ship below the wing-transom, and its lower end is tenoned into the keel.

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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