The iron inside the wooden sheathing kept the temperature down below decks in the hot and distant places where these ships spent their working lives.
Intsimbi ngaphakathi kwisinxobo sokhuni yagcina ubushushu phantsi ngaphantsi kwemigangatho kwiindawo ezishushu nezikude apho iinqanawa zichithela khona ubomi bokusebenza kwazo.