At the bow a stem piece was attached to the keelson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference

Venables; "abaft it is three feet above the keelson.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Round the World in Seven Days] Reference

Their floors may rest on the keelson, but should not come below it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

The keelson was formed of 1-inch spruce 3 inches wide and 10 feet long.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference

The keelson is also of pitch-pine, in two layers, one above the other; each layer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912] Reference

These forms, it will be observed, were notched to receive the keelson and gunwales.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference

A strip of spruce 1 inch thick, 3 inches wide and 12 feet long served as the keelson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference

Therefore, we fastened it to the keelson very lightly, so that it could be readily removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference

The forms were then set in place on the keelson, one at the center and the others three feet each side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference

I knew a ship from stem to stern, and from keelson to cross-trees, and could talk sailor like an "old salt.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

From this plank keelson, the ribs were attached allowing the construction of the bottom and sides of the hull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Rare Canal Boats Found] Reference

He then laid hold of the rope that was made fast to a shears overhead, swung out, and slid down to the very keelson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mutineers] Reference

At the stern a post 1-1/2 inches thick, 3 inches wide and 13 inches high was secured to the keelson with brass screws.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference

The cross ribs were passed under the keelson inside of the rib bands and outside of the gunwales, as shown in Fig. 128.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scientific American Boy The Camp at Willow Clump Island] Reference

The keelson is an inverted keel inside the vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference

The new carrier was complete from truck to keelson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Man's Rock] Reference

Mine from truck to keelson she is, and I'm master of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Bloweth] Reference

I was driving bolts in the hold, through the keelson, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bondage and My Freedom] Reference

Under the boiler and engine there was only room for one keelson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2] Reference

"Aye, alow and aloft, every bulkhead and timber from trucks to keelson!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Bartlemy's Treasure] Reference

Through the forward part of the keelson they bored a hole for the king-bolt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle] Reference

From truck to keelson there was no part of her imperfect; from stem to stern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wind Bloweth] Reference

The keelson was an old invention and shelf-pieces and waterways were soon in vogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference

We are going to place the keelson, and a dozen pair of hands would not be too many.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret of the Island] Reference

A loose bottom was therefore laid a few inches above the lining on each side of the keelson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2] Reference

Everything has been moved in the hold, from stem to stern, and from the water-ways to the keelson. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference

Navy on either side of the mainmast for a distance equal to about a third of the length of the keelson.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways] Reference

The foremast had been jammed up by the breaking of the keelson where it was set, and hung over the side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World] Reference

Only the evenly balanced hull was left, its bottom timbers broken and its bent keelson buried in the sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tides of Barnegat] Reference

He was, as he used to boast, entirely Irish from truck to keelson, but certainly not of a high class type.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days] Reference

And besides, he was rigged out from main truck to keelson in the nobbiest clothes that ever saw a fo'castle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion] Reference

Taking five feet of strong line, I tied one end under a rib next the keelson and the other around the paddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodcraft] Reference

I sailed from the cove about noon, greased from top to toe, while my vessel was tallowed from keelson to truck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sailing Alone Around the World] Reference

Near the after end of the saloon is the mizen-mast, which passes through into the hole below, and rests on the keelson.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Boy's Voyage Round the World] Reference

"I guess you don't realize how many times I've been over this hulk, from decks to keelson, with a mallet and a foot-rule.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories] Reference

The keelson is also of pitch-pine, in two layers, one above the other; each layer 15 inches square from the stem to the engine-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2] Reference

In addition, there are under the beams three rows of vertical stanchions between decks, and one row in the lower hold from the keelson.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2] Reference