fore topmast

Shortly afterwards the fore topmast staysail was blown to bits.

All three had set their main skysails and fore topmast and lower stunsails.

Our schooner is shown with only a main topmast, but many also carried a fore topmast.

Her mizzen mast and fore topmast sell overboard soon aster the action.

Her fore topmast was bent at an unnatural angle and there were scars on her painted flank.

Barreaut's vessel replied with her own broadsides that damaged Constellation's fore topmast.

Defence had lost its fore topmast and an improvised fireship that drifted through the battle narrowly missed Orion.

Still, Guillaume Tell eventually struck, but not before Foudroyant had lost her fore topmast and main topsail yard.

During World War I, the ships retained only their immobile lower masts, and in some cases the fore topmast to support a radio antenna.

While she was at anchor in Basque Roads on 26 October 1811, lightning damaged her fore topmast and foremast.

I looked round and saw Coertze attacking the port shrouds before I bent to loosen the fore topmast stay.

They had lost the fore topmast, and had been drifting to sea and wind while they had fought to carry out repairs.

Before the French arrived, Censeur lost her fore topmast and had only a frigate's main mast left, rendering her useless.

The collapsing mast dragged in its wake the fore topmast and a nightmarish tangle of yards, halyards, lines and sails.

By 1600 we were struggling to furl the main topmast staysail and fore topmast staysail in 46 knots.

Captain Gil Dippie had the crew set the fore topmast staysail, but unfortunately, the breeze was blowing in the wrong direction from where we were headed.

Jason had the lead with Mars shortly behind, although Inman on Ramillies had lost his fore topmast and had dropped back.

It seemed that the fore topmast staysail preventer had "snapped" due to the pressure being constantly exerted on it as the ship pounded into the waves.

As dawn arrived, Pepe and Courro came on deck with two muskets intent on shooting the Gibbs who had fled to the fore topmast.

Finding an axe in the ship's carpenter's locker, he chopped loose a hunk' of fallen fore topmast and found U too short when he tried to fit it in.

Despite the collapsed wreckage of the mizzenmast and fore topmast, his gunnery teams managed to cut away enough of the obstruction to fire a raking broadside at the French vessel.

Her mizzen mast and fore topmast sell overboard foon aster the action was used in the Royal Navy and commissioned as the third rate HMS Pegase.

In the opening exchanges, both frigates suffered damage to their rigging and sails, Crescent losing the fore topmast and Réunion the fore yard and mizzen topmast.

It is known that the Aid, Judith, Gabriel and Michael each had a foremast and mainmast as well as fore topmast and main topmast rigged with square sails.

In the Boatswain's department, Graeme Allan and Ally McCutcheon re-tensioned the fore topmast rigging and the Carpentary department continued with preparing the wales.