The false keel was a timber, forming part of the hull of a wooden sailing ship. Typically 6 inches (15 cm) thick for a 74-gun ship in the 19th century...

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resistant flush skin-planking along the variable water-line, and had a false keel for on-ice portage. If a koch became squeezed by the ice-fields, its rounded...

A worm shoe is a strip of wood such as oak or pine which is fixed to the keel of a wooden boat to protect it from shipworms. The wood is sacrificed to...

twelve to six inches an hour, occasioned by her main keel being wounded in many places, false keel gone from beyond the midships. Wounded on her larbord...

between two rocks and struck on the northern of the two, damaging her false keel. The rocks are said to extend over a space of about a quarter of a mile...

skin-planking (made of oak or larch) along the variable water-line, a false keel for on-ice portage (and for damage prevention from running aground in...

changes were made to the aircraft's design: a larger rudder, smaller false keel, and different wing fillets. During the test flights, the pilot Boris...

Christine Margaret Keeler (22 February 1942 – 4 December 2017) was an English model and showgirl. Her meeting at a dance club with society osteopath Stephen...

underground. The largest intact piece was a 15 foot long section of her false keel. The construction company reported the find to local authorities. After...

throughout Europe. Archive was formed in 1994 as a trip-hop band when Darius Keeler and Danny Griffiths formed up with Roya Arab and rapper Rosko John. After...

was pulled free only after three days aground during which she lost her false keel. She then ran short of coal and arrived at Monterey with empty bunkers...

Barrett Reef. She received but little injury, only a few feet of her false keel having been carried away. 1885 Coronilla, barque, had a narrow escape...

skin-planking (made of oak or larch) along the variable water-line, and had a false keel for on-ice portage. If a koch was in danger of being trapped in the ice-fields...

The false gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii), also known by the names Malayan gharial, Sunda gharial and tomistoma, is a freshwater crocodilian of the family...

the Lively class). Many captains requested additions to the frigates' false keels to remedy this. The Leda class stood to their canvas well and liked a...

clinker dinghy. They enlarged the dinghy by raising the gunwales, adding a false keel and decking it over. Captain Musgrave made sails from the Grafton's sails...

Another common name is false acacia, a literal translation of the specific name (pseudo [Greek ψευδο-] meaning fake or false and acacia referring to...

breastwork and upper decks, added another watertight bulkhead as well as a false keel. Four quick-firing 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns were added on the breastwork...

HMS Alarm, after which the bottoms and sides of several ships' keels and false keels were sheathed with copper plates. The copper performed well in protecting...

dumb shark (from its Japanese name oshizame) and keel-dorsal shark. Pacific populations of the false catshark were once regarded as a separate species...

Enigheiden. On 11 September Nightingale was at Leith receiving a 4-inch false keel. The Navy put Nightingale up for sale on 23 November 1815 at Sheerness...

made in the late 1750s: the bottoms and sides of several ships' keels and false keels were sheathed with copper plates. In 1761, the experiment was expanded...

her homeward journey. She had undergone repairs there, having lost her false keel and sustained other damage when she hit a sunken rock off "the Nicobar"...

1870. She grounded on a shoal in the Inland Sea on 15 July and lost her false keel. After the start of the Franco-Prussian War Alma blockaded the Prussian...

Kelly Keeling (born June 25, 1966) is an American musician and songwriter. Keeling started playing at the age of 14 and began his career as the lead singer...

" She received extensions to her gripe and another 4 inches onto her false keel, suggesting a lack of weatherliness as built. Boadicea is Jack Aubrey's...

Sovereign soon struck the Brampton reef, damaging the bottom, losing the false keel and rudder; the colour union down and firing muskets. By 10:00 am the...

breastwork and upper decks, added another watertight bulkhead as well as a false keel. Four quick-firing 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns were added on the breastwork...

James Dennis. On 6 February 1846 she was docked at Woolwich to have a false keel fitted to reduce her excessive rolling motion. From 1849 Commander George...