maintopmast

From the deck to the truck of the maintopmast is something over a hundred feet, while the foremast with its topmast is eight or ten feet shorter.

Chapter 6 2010

From the deck to the truck of the maintopmast is something over a hundred feet, while the foremast with its topmast is eight or ten feet shorter.

Chapter 6 1904

In less than an hour I had the maintopmast on deck and was constructing the shears.

Chapter 35 2010

The maintopmast was over thirty feet in length, the foretopmast nearly thirty, and it was of these that

Chapter 35 2010

On deck all hell broke loose as they were striking the maintopmast half an hour later; the preventer top-rope reeved through the fid-hole parted at the very moment a deluge of warm rain beat down on the ship, so thick they could scarcely breathe, much less see.

Heavy Weather Bruce Schauble 2006

On deck all hell broke loose as they were striking the maintopmast half an hour later; the preventer top-rope reeved through the fid-hole parted at the very moment a deluge of warm rain beat down on the ship, so thick they could scarcely breathe, much less see.

Archive 2006-12-01 Bruce Schauble 2006

Looking up in the darkness he could just make out that the brig was hove-to under the maintopmast staysail, of which only a corner was showing.

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

After hearing guns on shore, and seeing rockets thrown up, the night remarkably dark, could just carry single reefed topsails, top-gallant sails, gib, and maintopmast staysails.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

But to balance this success we had the misfortune to find that the Trial had sprung her mainmast, and that her maintopmast had come by the board; and as we were all of us standing to the eastward the next morning, with

Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced Richard Walter

The _Frolic_, on the night of the 17th of October, had been overtaken by a most violent gale of wind, in which she carried away her mainyard, lost her topsails, and sprung her maintopmast.

The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger