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The lower topgallant sail is immediately above the upper topsail.
The topgallant sail was lost, with one whaleboat damaged and two destroyed.
The Pucelle's fore topgallant sail collapsed, the chains holding the yard shot through.
It was later provided with a square sail rig similar to that of a polacca bark without topgallant sails.
Later full rigged ships split the topsail (and often the topgallant sail) for easier handling.
They thus fly two topsails (and possibly two topgallant sails) per mast.
"As soon as the boat was cast off I heard Christian give orders to loose "he topgallant sails.
Upper topgallant sail, if fitted.
It had royal sails above double top and topgallant sails, and was the largest vessel built by Ritson.
Priwall was a four-masted steel-hulled barque with royal sails over double top and topgallant sails.
The main-mast and fore-mast both carried courses, topsails, topgallant sails, staysails, and studding sails.
The lowest square sail was the course, the next sail up the mast was called the topsail, the next the topgallant sail.
The five masts were fully rigged, with courses, upper and lower topsails, upper and lower topgallant sails, and royals.
'Oh merciful God forgive this poor wretch her transgressions,' Joshua Smiles loudly intoned, his voice directed upwards at the topgallant sail.
On a square rigged vessel, a topsail is a square sail rigged above the course sail and below the topgallant sail where carried.
In a few minutes the schooner, under her mizen, brigantine, topsail, and topgallant sail, loosed from her moorings and made full sail through the straits.
Thus the sail second up the mizzen-mast is the "mizzen topsail", and the third sail up the fore-mast is the "fore topgallant sail".
In that period she was the first ship in history that flew royals above her topgallant sails and a topgallant sail on the jigger-mast.
Once the range had closed to within a few hundred yards, Captain Hull ordered extra sail (the foresail and main topgallant sail) to be set, to close the distance quickly.
Rigged only with double topgallant sails over double top sails, she was not equipped with royal sails (baldheader rigging) to save costs concerning gear and seamen.
With his back turned to Mary and his eyes fastened upon the topgallant sail, he kneeled upon the deck, having first respectfully removed his top hat and placed it beside him.
The aft sail plan on the mizzen had taken its definitive shape around 1780; Topgallant sails were common, which allowed for varying the area of sail presented to the wind with more subtlety.
And there are the ever-present trade winds, which in summer blow in a constant stiff breeze out of the east and make you think of topgallant sails and guineamen in the roadstead.
The Lawhill was a steel-hulled four-masted barque rigged in "jubilee" or "baldheaded" fashion, i.e. without royal sails over the topgallant sails, active in the early part of the 20th century.
The upper or only topgallant sail is set from the top of the topgallant mast, if there is a lower topgallant it is set from midway down the topgallant mast.
