Sheer Hulk Small 219×320 Medium 439×640 Large 702×1024 Download Tiff Original 1645×2400 | (1.1 MB) Description The sheer hulk is a ship that is afloat but incapable of going to sea. It was used as a crane to help construct ships with its sheers (masts). Keywords crane, mast, masts, sail boat, sailing, shear hulk, shear-hulk, sheer hulk, sheer-hulk, sheers, ship, vessel Galleries Miscellaneous Ship Illustrations Source: William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)
