The process of adding an extra layer of planking over the lower hull of weak or unstable ships. As an emergency measure it was applied in 1804-5 to a number of unseaworthy line of battle ships and frigates in a scheme promoted by Gabriel Snodgrass, Surveyor of the Honourable East India Company, which for some ships also included bracing with diagonal shores from the keel to the ends of the lower-deck beams.
Inkqubo yokongezelela omnye umaleko weplanga ngaphezu komphantsi weziqu zeenqanawe ezibuthathaka okanye ezingenasizinzo.