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topgallant-mast

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  • In the evening of the 10th, there was a dreadful storm of thunder, lightning, and rain, during which the mainmast of one of the Dutch East Indiamen was split, and carried away by the deck; and the maintop-mast and topgallant-mast were shivered to pieces.

    Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

  • In the evening of the 10th, there was a dreadful storm of thunder, lightning, and rain, during which the mainmast of one of the Dutch East Indiamen was split, and carried away by the deck; and the maintop-mast and topgallant-mast were shivered to pieces.

    Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003

  • So we climbed up to the cap of the topgallant-mast in company; but, as far apart as the poles, though so close together.

    Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

  • He had made the men lash the topmast and topgallant-mast to the fragment left of the original spar, securing it with back-stays and preventers on the port and starboard sides before getting up the shrouds.

    The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

  • Her upper spars were on the same scale, tapering away through topmast, topgallant-mast, royal and skysail-masts, until they fined away into slender wands.

    Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

  • Mr Adams having made good use of his time while others were sleeping to get up the spare topgallant-mast forward and set all the upper sail he could; so the passengers, roused up to new life by the cheery influence of the bright summer day, coming after all the gloom and misery and storm and tempest of the past, mustered round the cuddy table in full force.

    The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887

  • Suddenly he pulled the lanyard, the gun belched forth a torrent of flame and smoke, and, as I stood looking at the frigate through my own telescope, I saw a small round hole appear in the foot of the fore-topgallant-sail, another moment and the topgallant-mast doubled over and went, hanging down by its rigging, under the lee of the topsail, with the topgallant-sail and royal attached.

    The Log of a Privateersman Harry Collingwood 1886

  • They were certainly a very smart set of fellows aboard the Frenchman; for no sooner had the topgallant-mast fallen than the hands were in her rigging on their way aloft to clear away the wreck.

    The Log of a Privateersman Harry Collingwood 1886

  • I considered it far more probable that the mizzen-topmast or topgallant-mast had been shot away.

    The Log of a Privateersman Harry Collingwood 1886

  • And near her was an exceedingly smart-looking brigantine, with main-topmast and fore topgallant-mast housed.

    The Log of a Privateersman Harry Collingwood 1886

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