BKI ship plate is a plate - the plate is spliced into strips contained in boat hulls usually called by skin boat or ship also called shell.
Pointless. :
To provide structural strength longitudinal ship
Receive the load of the ship and its cargo
A watertight closure of the base to the top of the vessel
The strips of skin vessels are named with alphabet a, b, c, d and so start with a basic lanes
The connection plates are named with numbers 1,2,3 and so on from front to back