Taffrail
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In naval architecture, a taffrail is the handrail around the open deck area toward the stern of a ship or boat. The rear deck of a ship is often called the afterdeck or poop deck. Not all ships have a
William Heysmann Overend painting: Naval Captain on the Poop deck taffrail
Weather deck of the Swedish 17th-century warship Vasa looking aft toward the sterncastle, with a hand carved taffrail
Gdańsk "Lew" a seventeenth-century galleon replica, stern with wooden carved taffrail
Prins Willem stern with wooden carved taffrail
Poop deck
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In naval architecture, a poop deck is a deck that forms the roof of a cabin built in the rear, or stern, part of the superstructure of a ship.
Taffrail
…a taffrail is the handrail around the open deck area toward the stern of a ship or boat. The rear deck of a ship is often called the afterdeck or poop deck. Not all ships have an afterdeck or poop deck. Sometimes taffrail refers to just the curved wooden top of the stern of a sailing man-of-war or East…
Poop deck of a model of the Soleil-Royal, as seen from the forecastle