topmast

There was no hesitation in the way the topmast men did their work.

"He took her to the topmast high," trembled the words in his mind.

And now here was Broke, running down the topmast shrouds.

He sat there, one hand white on the ratlines, the other arm around the topmast.

The topmast was cut away, but still the Bellone ran before the wind.

The brig might have escaped had she not lost her topmast.

Holding on to the topmast with one arm, she let her body sway in the breeze.

And we all tuned in to hear the topmast noviality.

If luck is with us, we won't see so much as the topmast of our pursuers.

Favorite pursued the French vessels but could not keep up after losing her topmast.

He looked up as the man in the topmast yelled and waved, stretching his arm to the west.

The topmast wasn't in sight: that must have been lost, along with the gaff.

I stepped into the topmast shrouds and began to climb.

The Tarvolina, that was our ship, lost her topmast and yards straight away.

'If only you had got the topmast up last night we might have run in to Vestervik.

But when the butt of the topmast was level with the rail, everything came to a standstill.

"We can cut the topmast away without difficulty, sir: hasn't damaged anything else.

He looked up to where his topmast men hung in the rigging, ready to handle the great mass of canvas.

In the high winds the topmast breaks, throwing a popular crewman into the water.

Venerable took the worst of the early action and at 05:30 the mizen topmast was shot away.

In the short engagement Wilkin lost her main topmast and mizzenmast.

The recoil of the gun hurled him back against the topmast shrouds.

'There go the remains of her mainmast and the topmast', Martin commented.

The topmast is semi-permanently attached to the upper front of the lower mast, at the top.

The captain pauses and stares towards the topmast in a sort o' holy-looking way.