top mast

He used one of the trees to make a new top mast for the Resolution.

"Going to be a nasty job getting the top masts down in the dark," I said to her.

The top masts down, even the yards now taken down.

Royal George also had severe damage to her top mast and rigging.

After riding out a severe gale that carried away her top mast, she arrived in Philadelphia on 9 August.

"The lookout reports a dark line of clouds on the horizon to the north," Diane said to me, the last of the top masts now down.

She came home in August 1985 with one fish after 10 days out, and Raynes took the top mast and pulpit off for good.

The 4.7 uses the same hull and top mast section as the Laser, but has a different (smaller) bottom mast section and sail.

Guillaume Tell had had her main and mizzen top masts shot away by Penelope, but resisted Foudroyant.

She lost her main mast and mizen top mast in a sudden squall off St. Paul's on 3 June.

That autumn Calypso was caught in a storm in October or November in which she lost her top masts and suffered extensive damage.

Nellie J. Banks was a schooner with two masts (the usual foremast and two top masts) the hull was black.

At the time of her local break-up Liverpool Football Club were looking for a flagpole for their Anfield ground and consequently purchased her top mast.

The main mast and the top mast are in place, although the top six feet of the top mast are broken and hanging down."

Malta had suffered considerably during the battle, having her mizzen top mast and mizzen sail yard shot away, and her mizzen and main masts damaged.

The Daily Alta California wrote that "lying broadside OR to the rocks... bilged and full of water, her mainmast is gone, also the fore and main top mast".

The crew threw guns overboard and cut away her anchors, top masts and mizen-mast, all in a futile attempt to lighten her and get her off the rocks.

A barge with no topsail - or top mast sailing stumpy-rigged enabled the barge to pass under London's bridges, get in close to shore for offloading goods and get far up river.

"Karis, ready two sea anchors, and reinforce them, strip all sails from the yards and bring down the top masts if possible," I spoke then, the Empress standing there and regarding us quietly.

By the end of the battle Bonne Citoyenne had lost her top masts, her lower masts were badly damaged, and her rigging, sails and boats had been shot to pieces.

Suffren was in the process of forming his battle line around 3 pm when a squall took down the main and mizzen top masts of Ajax, forcing her to drop out of his line.

For an instant I had feared we would go completely over, only our lack of top masts having lightened the "top ham- per" of the ship enough that she came back up to an even keel!!! "

We were all exchanging fire, ballistae javelins and catapult shot flying back and forth, the sails filled with holes, although there was little actual damage as yet to the rigging, I noticed, except for the main top mast.

Not only the hull was steel: masts (lower and top mast were made in one piece) and spars (yard, spanker boom) were constructed of steel tubing, and most of the rigging was steel cable.

The top masts were a lot lighter in weight, and could be handled with equipment aboard... "I wonder what it is going to be like in Dularn," Carol said to me as we sat together there beneath cool shade of an oak tree.