Iron or steel straps fastened diagonally across a ship's frames to make a rigid framework.

An overlapping joint used to couple two timbers end-to-end without increasing their dimensions. Types include simple butt (flat) scarphs and more complicated hooked and keyed scarphs.

An anchor that is not secured to the rail at the bow of a ship, as stock anchors are, but is pulled up into the hawsepipes until the flukes meet the hull.

(Or after.) Near, toward or at the stern of a ship.

In a ship with multiple cabins, the cabin closest to the stern.

In a sailing ship carrying multiple masts, the mast set closest to the stern. Also called the mizzenmast in a three-masted sailing vessel.

The farthest aft.

In or toward the part of a ship midway between bow and stern.

A curved architectural structure used to support suspended weight. In Great Lakes wooden shipbuilding, a wide iron- or steel-fastened strap down each side of a ship, usually fastened low in the bow an [..]

An arch-shaped nameboard fastened to the stern of a ship, displaying the vessel's name and home port.