Carvel Built: A method of boat building in which the planks are laid flush with the. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong. Bunk: A built-in wooden bed on board ship, often built in tiers. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. ( Note: Editors who post this notice are strongly encouraged to add details explaining how it applies to this file.) Interest in strengthening the navy and merchant marine emerged. A knee rafter in carpentry is a bent rafter used to gain head room in an attic. Knees, sometimes called ships knees, are a common form of bracing in boat building and occasionally in timber framing.

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File unit: Ship Building - Wooden - Alabama Drydock And Shipbuilding Co.

Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs ( National Archives Identifier: 533461 ).

Record group: Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs ( National Archives Identifier: 494 ) In ship construction, a variety of woods were used from white spruce in the frames, decking and planking to eastern larch or hackmatack in the ships knees.

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Wooden ship construction