A sternpost is the upright structural member or post at the aft end of a ship or a boat, to which are attached the transoms and the rearmost part of the stern.
The sternpost may either be completely vertical or may be tilted or "raked" slightly aft. It rests on or "fays to" the ship's keel.
Traditionally, the rudder was suspended from the sternpost, and the propellers descended from it. With changes in how these are positioned, in modern shipbuilding vessels are often not considered to have a sternpost.
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Kemp, Dear; Kemp, Peter, eds. (2006). "sternpost". The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199205684. 9780199205684 ↩
Hovgaard, William (1915). Structural Design of Warships. E. & F. N. Spon, Limited. ↩
Kemp, Dear; Kemp, Peter, eds. (2006). "sternpost". The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199205684. 9780199205684 ↩