Word: keelson
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...French and Spanish navies were rotten to their garboard strakes, Pope makes clear that the British was rotten to its keelson. Its ships were badly designed and badly built. Crews were made up largely of pressed men, recruited by a system of legalized kidnaping. They were fed swill unfit for swine, and discipline was inhumanly savage by today's standards. But long years of keeping the sea, often for 18 months without making port, made them magnificent seamen. Something else, which Pope finds hard to define, made them patriots. And Admiral...
Alarm gongs clanged violently from lookout to keelson; bugles sounded to-your-stations. On the bridge the young officers put on their earphones and checked with the fire-control room and plotters. Observers focused their binoculars. The T-shaped range finders swung in the sleepy calisthenics of limbering and checking. In the control tower the plotters laid out their instruments-parallel, slide, caliper...
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