Shell plating

Shell plating is the outer-most structure on the hull of a steel or aluminum ship or boat.

[1] In modern ship construction it refers to the longitudinal run of plating covering the hull, deck and bulkhead structure.

It is the strake that connects the Side Shell to the Strength Deck.

Stringer: is a special strake of the Strength Deck plating.

It is normally the uppermost continuous deck and forms the top flange of the hull girder.

An autoCAD drawing of the various plating strakes on a convention hull.