Topgallant Forecastle to Water Ways

The small deck built level with the rail at the forward part of the ship.

A name given to all that part of a ship's side above the main-wales.

The timbers which form the topside. The first general tier which reach the top are called the long top-timbers, and those below are called the short top-timbers. (See Frames.)

The curve limiting the height of the sheer at the given breadth of the top timbers.

The broadest part of a plank worked top and butt, which place is six feet from the butt end. Or, the middle of a plank worked anchor-stock fashion. Also the sudden angles of the stern-timbers at the counters etc.

A term for the carved work, between the cheeks, at the heel of the figure.

The thwartship timbers which are bolted to the stern-post in order to form the buttock; and of which the curves, forming the round aft, are represented on horizontal or half-breadth plan of the ship.

A right line or curved which cuts a system of other lines right or curved.

The whole length of the keel upon a straight line.

Cylindrical oak pins driven through the planks and timbers of a vessel to fasten or connect them together. These certainly make the best fastening when driven quite through and caulked or wedged inside. They should be made of the very best oak, cut near the butt, and perfectly dry or well seasoned.

The aft part of the ship where the ends of the planks of the bottom are terminated by the tuck-rail, and all below the wing-transom when it partakes of the figure of the wing-transom as far as the fashion-pieces. (See Square Tuck.)

The rail which is wrought well with the upper side of the wingtransom, and forms a rabbet for the purpose of caulking the butt ends of the planks of the bottom.

The iron covering which decks over the extreme after part of the upper deck on many steamers. The turtle-back commences at the bulwark rail, and it is from its falling home, or rounding at that point that it derives its name.

A term applied to the topsides of the ship when the main breadth is continued very low down and very high up, so that the topsides appear straight and upright like a wall.

A shifting strake along the topsides of a small vessel, used occasionally to keep out the sea.

Those horizontal lines supposed to be described by the surface of the water on the bottom of a ship, and which are exhibited at certain depths, upon the sheer-draught. Of these the most particular are those denominated the light water line and the load water line; the former, namely, the light water line, being that line which shows the depression of the ship's body in the water when light or unladen, as when first launched; and the latter, which exhibits the same when laden with her guns and ballast or cargo. In the half-breadth plan these lines are curves limiting the half-breadth of the ship at the height of the corresponding lines in the sheer plan.

The edge of the deck next the timbers, which is wrought thicker than the rest of the deck, and so hollowed to the thickness of the deck as to form a gutter or channel for the water to run through to the scuppers.