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ship AND boat BUILDING TERMS Glossary: A collection of lists and explanations of abstruse, obsolete, dialectical or technical TERMS . Reference Document: Modern Shipbuilding TERMS F. Forrest Pease, J. B. Lippincott Company This glossary gives definitions of many (but by no means all) of the ship / boat construction TERMS the marine surveyor will find. They relate to the hull only and are mainly those that the author learned when he was an apprentice shipwright. They include some very ancient ones and a few that are now obsolete but were still in use, again, when the author was a shipwright.
purpose of lowering her centre of gravity and increasing her metacentric height. It can be lead, iron, concrete, etc. depending on the space available and the amount needed and may be either a solid shaped casting or in the form of loose ballast pigs. …
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