Deadwood (shipbuilding)

Deadwood is wooden block filler near the lower part of a ship's stem or stern.

Deadwood (Labelled "3")
Starboard view of rudder, sternpost, and deadwood fitted in the triangle formed by the sternpost, keel, and curve of the hull planking

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