topgallant mast

He never really decided to go the rest of the way up the topgallant mast; begun, the climb had its own destination.

The topgallant masts were sent down as soon as the ship was beached.

He's going to need two new topgallant masts, as the fore was sprung as well.

Not all the masts mind, just the fore and main topgallant masts.

The royal yard came loose and fell, bringing with it part of the fore topgallant mast.

More sail-handlers were up the mainmast trying to secure the wreckage of the topgallant mast.

The main topgallant mast had torn away.

The topgallant masts on the fore and main will come down in the next strong wind most of the shrouds are burned through.

Would he now throw himself from the topgallant mast of the vessel into the depths of the raging ocean?

The topgallant mast waited above, shrouds bunched, ratlines far too insubstantial.

Originally, she was intended to be a topgallant-yard schooner, but later she received a topgallant mast.

The following season's journey to China was relatively uneventful, only involving the loss of the mizzen topgallant mast in a collision.

The topgallant masts were sent down, new sails bent, and the ship made ready for the heavy winds and seas which lay ahead.

The stay of the fore topgallant mast is attached to the jib-boom at the extremity of its point.

The canvas it attached had flapped in the high winds until it had been caught on the topgallant mast.

Minotaur lost her bowsprit and fore topgallant mast, but Bellerophon only suffered some minor flooding.

Mr Fielding, sway up fore and mizen topgallant masts .'

Young Geoff (Woods) astounds us all again by climbing to the Topgallant Mast.

The captain pointed toward the foremast, and sure enough there was Robert, hanging on the yards of the topgallant mast, a hundred feet above in the air.

Union flags were hoisted to the fore topgallant mast and to the main topmast stay so that every ship flew three flags.

He returned with a part of the topgallant masts which were above water, and with a cat which he had found perched on the cross-trees.

Since the ship had long royal poles on her topgallant masts it is highly probable she crossed royal yards, like the later packet ships.

Her fore topgallant mast quivered as its shrouds were shot away, then toppled slowly forward to hang like a broken cross, canvas billowing.

He devised a novel method of fidding a topgallant mast and several contrivances for the "better nipping and stopping a cable".

The Preußen was seriously damaged and lost much of her forward rigging (bowsprit, fore topgallant mast), making it impossible to steer the ship to safety.