These Crimean gunboats, as they were called, were given an ugly, almost square-sectioned, flat-bottomed hull, with slab sides and a stem without a knee.
Ezi zikhephe zaseCrimea, njengangoko zazibizwa, zanikwa icandelo elisisikwere elibi, elinesiqu esimtyaba, nezilebhu emacaleni kunye nomva ngaphandle kwedolo.