mizzen-rigging

“Walk over and examine those lanyards,” he said, pointing to where the mizzen-rigging should have been.

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Von Sterneck, the captain of the "Ferdinand Max," had gone half-way up the mizzen-rigging, to look out over the smoke; he reported that the "Re d'Italia" was not under full control, and Tegethoff once more dashed at his enemy.

Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

As he laid us athwart-hawse, or as we swung by him, our jib-boom ran into his mizzen-rigging.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

"Ha! I see him at last!" exclaimed the skipper, clambering up from the deck, and supporting himself by holding on to the mizzen-rigging as he stood on the taffrail and peered forward along the ship's side, to where he could now notice the floating object ahead, almost in the wind's-eye.

Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

Before he could answer a voice hailed us over stern, and we hurried aft to find Billy Priske dragging himself towards the ship by the raffle of mizzen-rigging.

Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The Serapis wore short round upon her heels, and her jib - boom ran into the mizzen-rigging of the Bon Homme Richard; in this situation the ships were made fast together with a hawser, the bowsprit of the Serapis to the mizzen-mast of the Bon Homme Richard, and the action recommenced from the starboard sides of the two ships.

Camps and Firesides of the Revolution 1902

"Guerriere" stretched far across the quarter-deck of the American ship, and was soon fouled in the mizzen-rigging of the latter vessel.

The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

"Walk over and examine those lanyards," he said, pointing to where the mizzen-rigging should have been.

The Sea Wolf Jack London 1896

I paced a turn or two on the poop and saw him take up his position face forward with his elbow in the ratlines of the mizzen-rigging before I went below.

'Twixt Land and Sea Joseph Conrad 1890

He touched his sou'wester to the girl and mounted the weather mizzen-rigging, running up the ratlines as a fireman goes up a ladder.

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888