pole-mast

"You are American?" he asked, pointing to the star-spangled banner on the pole-mast.

Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War James Allan

The tall mast is the mainmast, the short mast is the mizzen; some ketches carry square sails on the main, some carry a topsail on the mizzen -- the distinctive mark of the ketch being that the mizzen is a pole-mast and stepped in front of the stern-post.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various

She was a pole-mast, schooner-rigged steam yacht, Charley accurately told me, with clipper bow and spiked bowsprit.

Lady Baltimore Owen Wister 1899

“You are American?” he asked, pointing to the star-spangled banner on the pole-mast.

Under the Dragon Flag Allan, James 1898

The sound of the splash was in my ears and the echo of my own laugh, but with it there mingled a cry from Billy Priske, and shaking the water out of my eyes I saw him erect in the stern-sheets and astare at a vision parting the fog -- the vision of a tall fore-and-aft sail, golden-grey against the sunlight, and above the sail a foot or two of a stout pole-mast, and above the mast a gilded truck and weather-vane with a tail of scarlet bunting.

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