fore-topgallant

The lookout at the fore-topgallant masthead was hailing.

Hornblower In The West Indies Forester, C. S. 1958

Jane_, as the fore-topmast had soon snapped off sharp at the cap like a carrot, bringing with it, of course, the fore-topgallant mast as well, and the main-topgallant mast, with their respective yards and other spars, and the jib-boom as well.

Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

This Arctic scene causes our captain and his officers to look rather serious, and they mount at times to the fore-topgallant mast.

God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada Clara M. S. Lowe

In our illustration the vessel has set her fore studding-sail, her fore-topmast studding-sail and her fore-topgallant studding-sail -- studding-sail being pronounced stu'nsail, just as topgallant-sail is telescoped into topgantsail.

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

"Aye, aye, sir," the boy answered readily, for he enjoyed being aloft, and he clambered up the shrouds to the fore-topgallant yard and furled the sail, taking a pride in having it lie smooth and round on the top of the yard.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

A great one to carry sail; yet in the sixteen years of his commands he had had no more serious accident than the loss of a fore-topgallant mast or splitting a couple of courses.

Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

Several of the hands, including Foucault and Parratt, had followed, and all looked up; and there they saw the body of Nilsson, hanging on the front of the fore-topgallant sail.

John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

The boy stood on the lee side of the poop, and was looking over the side at the wreck of the fore-topgallant mast, which was still attached to the ship by the stay and braces of the yard, the men not yet having time to cut it adrift -- all hands being busy in doing what was possible to save the main-topgallant mast, that had begun to show signs of giving way.

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

But at two bells in the second dog-watch, that night, all doubt was put an end to by a sudden, startling cry from the lookout on the fore-topgallant yard of:

The Castaways Harry Collingwood 1886

Mildmay stood for a moment, as one in a dream, watching the submergence of the ill-fated _Mercury's_ jib-boom end and fore-topgallant mast-head

The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure Harry Collingwood 1886