A concentration of nails, nearly seven hundred in number, averaged 2 1/4 inch in length and were square in cross-section with forged rose heads. These nails probably were contained in a box or bag that has since deteriorated, and were available for shipboard repairs, or possibly as anti-personnel shrapnel.

Nail holes recorded in the sacrificial planking represented nails that were placed more randomly than that of the bottom planks. Their shanks were square and about 0.25 inches in thickness. Probing the smaller fastener holes in the bottom planks and the inherent thickness of the sacrificial planks reveal an average length of 3 to 3.5 inches.