mizzen
jigger mast , auch: mizzenmast , auch: mizen , auch: spanker

From the bow they were the fore, main and mizzen.

Mizzen shot back before the knight could even finish his warning.

If the fished mizzen went, then clearly the Surprise would have to bear away.

On a ketch, the house flag would be moved to the mizzen.

No, what I am afraid for is that wretched fished mizzen.

It is also possible to ease the mizzen slightly to allow the boat to move slowly forward.

During this voyage she lost her mizzen and spanker in a storm.

I think we may rig the sheets tonight and get the stump of the mizzen out first thing tomorrow.

The mizzen is small, and is intended to help provide helm balance.

We took off down the Chesapeake using the mizzen, the main, and the multipurpose sail.

Photograph, port broadside view, no sails set, yards on mizzen.

The mainmast is placed well forward and the mizzen as far back as possible.

A string of flags appeared at the Mars's mizzen.

The American fire brought down the Wolfe's mizzen- and main-topmasts.

Talon yelled again, pulling two men off the mizzen to man the mainsail.

The mizzen is bigger to hold the bow of the boat toward the wind and oncoming waves.

Mark and John had rolled up the jib, main, and mizzen about 25 percent.

The mizzen suddenly dropping down overhead made him jump but fear had gone: he had too much to think about.

Like unto a serpent, but winged, coiled in the mizzen.

In Blue at the Mizzen she marries a scholarly clergyman.

"Mizzen" is an Arabic word that means balance.

The mizzen was also taken in.

We set a storm trysail on the mizzen, and took in the mainsail.

He stepped a mizzen on the Gift.

The mizzen is in and fast furled.

Well, I put some timber back in his mizzen mast, and no mistake.

The mizzen mast was removed in 1892, after the ship had been launched, but before her completion.

The mizzen mast is used to assist steering the boat and balancing the helm.

(It follows that a schooner does not have a mizzen mast).

Braces to the mizzen mast from the main had been torn away, and it too started to rock loose.

The mizzen mast snapped off above the deck and the upper portion was not located.

It would have a long overhanging bowsprit and protruding mizzen mast.

Another word from thee and it will see thee stretched to the mizzen mast.

In 1853, Pacific mizzen mast was removed, presumably in order to reduce drag.

Later in the day, Foudroyant's mizzen mast fell, having been damaged during the battle.

The main and mizzen masts were stripped of sails and rigging.

Or it is the mizzen mast for thee!'

There she captured two Swedish ships before a gale on the 16th took away her main and mizzen mast.

The cross-jack yard was the lowest yard on a ship's mizzen mast.

A sail appears set on the mizzen mast and if this is correct, the bow is to the right of the image.

During the battle Keats placed a portrait of Nelson on the mizzen mast.

The mainmast and foremast (if present) could be lowered during fishing, leaving only the mizzen mast upright.

Furthermore, when the mizzen mast went it took one seaman to go overboard with it and severely injured others.

The mizzen sail (smaller than the mainsail) is hoisted on the mizzen mast.

She was rigged as barquentine, with her funnel set well aft between the main and mizzen masts.

On arrival at the wreck site, they found very heavy seas breaking over the Ulrica forward of the mizzen mast.

I vaguely remember words like 'mizzen mast', but I haven't a clue what any of them mean.'

The vessels of the class were barque-rigged, but some of the pictures show yards on the mizzen mast, which would have made them ship rigged.

Some boats had a topsail on the mizzen mast, while others had a bowsprit carrying a jib.

As the world by now knows, these are the diaries of a spanker.

"Loosen up your main and spanker just a bit," I said to her.

It is licensing the use of its own vehicles like "Spanker."

I had posted the best men at the spanker and the jib.

Holding on to the spanker boom, he leaned out over the taffrail.

During this voyage she lost her mizzen and spanker in a storm.

He bent to see past the spanker and discovered her kneeling by the mast.

One must set the jib and the spanker properly.

The only wooden spar was the gaff of the small spanker.

It was all that was left of Spanker - the stick with which he had been tied.

The only sail that is wholly ours is the spanker.

"Jib, spanker and main stay sail," I smiled back at her then.

"Let fly the spanker, swing her around to port!"

A spanker is either of two kinds of sail.

A meal was being served on deck in the shade of the spanker, and Jerry, sitting between the two men received his share.

Instead, I tied a chartreuse streamer known as a spanker to a stout leader.

He saw the spanker being sheeted home to the boom end as the topsail was let fall from the yard.

A gust slammed into the spanker, which men still labored to furl.

The constant draw of wind off the spanker snagged his black hair into elf locks.

Meanwhile, George attempts to talk Spanker into a surrender.

You needn't bother about the spanker nor the mizzen-braces.

The jib controlling the bow while the spanker in turn controls the stern of the ship.

"Let fly the jib, haul in on the spanker!"

A spanker is a gaff-sail flown on the mizzenmast of a tall ship.