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 TB 55-1900-201-45/1
FUTTOCK - Curved parts or sections of transverse frames extending from the floor timbers to the top timbers.
GIRDER - A continuous member running in a fore and aft direction under the deck for the purpose of supporting
the deck beams and deck. The girder is generally supported by widely spaced pillars.
GIRTH - Distance around a vessel's shell from gunwale to bilges, to keel, to bilge to gunwale.
GUDGEONS - Bosses on sternpost drilled for pins (pintles) for the rudder to swing on.
GUNWALE - Junction of deck and shell at top of sheer strake.
GUSSET PLATE - Triangle plate that connects members or braces.
GARBOARD - The strake nearest the keel.
GRUB BEAM - A built up beam of short heavy timbers used to shape a round stern.
HOGGING - Straining of the ship that tends to make the bow and stern lower than the middle portion.
HORN TIMBER - One or more timbers forming the main support for an overhanging stem and extending aft from
the upper end of the stern post. Also, used for timber connecting the shaft log and body post with the rudder post.
HORSE - To drive home as to horse caulking.
INSPECTION - To make an official examination, checking or testing of a component against established stan-
dards.
KEEL, BAR - A keel that protrudes through the bottom.
KEEL, FLAT - A fore and aft row of flat plates end to end on the center line, running along the bottom of the ship
from stem to stern, the forward and after plates being dished up into a U shape to fit the stem and stern castings.
KEELSON SIDE - Fore and aft member placed on each side of the center vertical keel.
KING PLANK - The centerline plank of a deck.
LONGITUDINAL - A fore and aft structural member running parallel or nearly parallel to the center vertical keel,
along the inner bottom, shell or deck.
LIMBER HOLE - A hole allowing the free passage of water from one area to another.
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