Workers are replacing the hull’s below-water outer planking and its framing, the riblike parts of the boat that extend out from the keelson, the backbone of the ship.

Keel, keelson, longitudinals and inner and outer bottoms, were of a weight, size and thickness exceeding those of any previous ship.

The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel.

The guns were run out, and the Golden Hope quivered from truck to keelson with the roar of her ordnance.

These craft are hopper-bottomed and fitted with band conveyors of the ordinary type, running between the double keelson of the lighter and delivering into an elevator erected at the stern of the lighter.