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DEAD-WOOD
DEAD-WOOD, (contre-quille, Fr.) a name given by shipwrights to certain blocks of timber laid upon the keel, particularly at the extremities afore and abaft, where these pieces are placed one upon another to a considerable heighth, because the ship is there so narrow as not to admit of the two half-timbers, which are therefore scored into this dead-wood, where the angle of the floor-timbers gradually diminishes, as approaching the stern and stern-post. See the article Naval ARCHITECTURE.In the fore-part of the ship, the dead-wood generally extends from the stemson, upon which it is scarsed to the loose-frame; and in the after-end from the stern-post, where it is confined by the knee, to the after-balance frame. It is connected to the keel by strong spike-nails. Those pieces are represented by e e, PIECES of the HULL, plate I.
The dead-wood afore and abaft is equal in depth to two thirds of the depth of the keel, and as broad as can be procured, so as not to exceed the breadth of the keel.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 96, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0415.html