jury mast

They would also need fresh water, firewood, and jury masts.

So a jury mast could be various things.

By chance she fell in with a ship under jury masts that proved to be a French frigate.

Due to a lack of hard historical evidence there is also uncertainty whether it was ever commonly used for rigging jury masts.

Under jury masts and a temporary rudder she got a considerable distance out of the Sleeve when a gale came up.

While the crew labored to rig a spar as a jury mast, the ship's mainmast broke and toppled into the sea.

Old salts know that a jury mast is hastily put up to replace a mast that has been broken or swept away.

Ships always carried a variety of spare sails, so rigging the jury mast once erected was mostly a matter of selecting appropriate size.

With jury masts and a temporary rudder she was making fair progress when the wind backed and made the coast of Jutland a lee shore.

The jury mast knot is often mentioned as a method to provide the anchor points for securing makeshift stays and shrouds to the new mast.

Impétueux had been caught in a hurricane earlier in the summer and was badly damaged, limping to port under jury masts.

He used chain pumps, replaced the rudder, and fitted jury masts, by which effort she was safely brought to Deptford Dock.

One method for tying the bottle sling is similar to the loop-and-weave method used to tie the jury mast knot and the trumpet knot.

However, when the wind cleared in the afternoon it was discovered that they were all merchantmen except for the frigate under jury masts and the second frigate.

Many ships had only jury masts and it took a full day for the convoy to reach the mouth of the bay, finally sailing into open water on 15 August.

It took four abortive attempts before the two of them were able to rig a jury mast, and hoist a sail hacked from the canvas of the boat cover.

The ungainly jury mast raised by the Dutch captain to replace his gale-shattered main, had been taken down and the galleon's lines were awkward and unharmonious with one mast missing.

Without the steadying effect of masts and spars the ship rolled like a pig in a midden, and as the Spaniards hadn't rigged jury masts yet, perhaps they couldn't.

The Jury mast knot (or Masthead knot) is traditionally used for jury rigging a temporary mast on a sailboat or ship after the original one has been lost.

Rigging jury masts, Foudroyant began slowly limping for the Spanish port of Havana on Cuba, where she could make the repairs needed for the journey back to France.

Carteret then sailed for four days in a fruitless search for the frigate under jury masts before he was able to find out that Andromache had captured her on 23 October.

It was only when the storm had abated that jury masts could be raised and the scattered ships could rejoin the squadron for its journey back to Britain, arriving at Spithead.

Selecting what they wished they returned to the vessel, and a few minutes later von Horn was chagrined to see them stepping a jury mast-- he thought the treasure lay in the Ithaca's cabin.

With her back against the jury mast, Centaine stared out at the horizon, the great ring of threatening water that surrounded them unbroken except in the east where a line of sombre cloud lay low on the sea.

Jury masts were set up on the battered hulk, although such extensive repairs were required that when Linois sailed a week later the ship was still only just seaworthy, and was sent back to Algeciras.