Keel

Schematic partial cross-section of a ship with keel (red) and doubling (yellow).

In iron and steel shipbuilding, the outer skin of the ship consists of plate corridors running in the direction of the ship . The corridor of the floor plating adjoining the middle of the ship is called the keel corridor . It forms the backbone of the ship and on some ships that come into contact with the bottom of the harbor in tidal harbors, for example, to protect the hull with a doubling or greater plate thickness.

literature

• Author collective: Stahlschiffbau , transpress Verlag, Berlin, 1989. - ISBN 3-341-00410-6
• Detje, Peter: Shipbuilding for boaters , Eckhardt & Messtorff Verlag, Hamburg, 1962

See also

• Shear rate
• Kimm (shipbuilding)
• shipbuilding
• Hull