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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Coin ceremony Kelson False keel Daggerboard Leeboard Bilgeboard Bruce foil Keelhauling – an archaic maritime punishment Keel block Man, Myth & Magic:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Archive (band) (redirect from The False Foundation)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The false gharial (Tomistoma schlegelii), also known by the names Malayan gharial, Sunda gharial and tomistoma, is a freshwater crocodilian of the family...
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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...
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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...
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Robinia pseudoacacia (redirect from False Acacia)
Another common name is false acacia, a literal translation of the specific name (pseudo [Greek ψευδο-] meaning fake or false and acacia referring to...
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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...
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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...
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dumb shark (from its Japanese name oshizame) and keel-dorsal shark. Pacific populations of the false catshark were once regarded as a separate species...
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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...
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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...
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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"...
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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...
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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...
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" 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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