false keel
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Decades of exposure to seawater had corroded the pin at the area where it connected the keel to a protective timber known as the false keel.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2010
We also discovered that several feet of the Hecla's false keel were torn away abreast of the fore chains, in consequence of her grounding forward so frequently.
From Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849 by Gilly, William O. S.
The false keel is only fastened to the keel itself from underneath, because such a fastening is strong enough to resist water pressure and weak enough to allow of detachment in case of grounding.
From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by Wood, William Charles Henry
The light of the moon showed the sheathing boards of the ship floating all round, and at last her false keel.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
The false keel was taken off, the whole vessel, in short, was rendered as strong, outside and in, as wood and iron and skill could make her.
From Fast in the Ice Adventures in the Polar Regions by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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