inner jib

Ship under reefed mainsail, staysail, and inner jib.

The fore-topmast will carry a staysail, but depending on where the lower end of the stay is attached it may be called a fore-topmast-staysail or an inner jib.

At 1 am, the north-northwest gale split inner jib of British schooner Eament; the course of the vessel fell from northeast to east-northeast, and gale increased.

Perhaps now we shall hear less of selvagees and booms -the inner jib, the outer jib - nay, to crown all, the jibs of jibs, God forbid.

Then on her quarter, with the patched inner jib, that's the Hope: or maybe she's the Ocean - they're much of a muchness, out of the same yard and off of the same draught.

The jibs, staysails between the first mast and the bowsprit were named (from inner to outer most) fore topmast staysail (or foretop stay), inner jib, outer jib and flying jib.