false keel

British  

noun

1. an extension to the keel of a vessel either for protecting the keel from damage or for reducing leeway

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false keel

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

Probably, had her bows not been so depressed, she would have gone over it altogether with a scrape, merely taking off her false keel and dead-wood without doing any material damage.

From The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey

"About twenty-eight feet in length, nine in breadth, and two feet draught, though with the addition of a false keel and ballast she will draw at least four feet."

From The Nameless Island A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Her false keel had been broken and had swung across her main keel, which we could not repair.

From Journal of Voyages Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate... by Jacob Dunham

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