- her
cargo and guns had been
thrown overboard, and her
foreyard and her
sails from the
foreyard had been cut down. Her crew had been
about to take to her...
- ****ed in
pairs to each yard, one at each end.
brace abox To
bring the
foreyards flat
aback to stop the ship.
brail 1. To furl a sail by
pulling it in...
-
emerging she
furiously and
unsuccessfully demanded he be
hanged from the
foreyard arm. By his wife he had
three children: Sir
Ferdinand Richard Edward Dalberg-Acton...
- succession.
Orion came
round untouched, but
Colossus was
going about when her
foreyard and
foretop yard were shot away. She was
forced to wear ship
instead of...
- by
herself early the
following morning. By that time, she had lost her
foreyard, rudder, windl****,
spare spars,
longboat and skiff, and was
leaking at...
-
Kagosima one vent-piece of the pivot-gun
broke and a
piece went up to
foreyard, but no one was hurt, and it was the
fault of the
captain of the gun not...
- in an
attempt to escape, but
drowned when it capsized. In the
morning a
foreyard was
placed over the
gunwale that
permitted the rest of the crew to reach...
-
Houses in
these styles typically included a
Teochew gate
which led to the
foreyard of the house,
which had a
storied shophouse look
instead of
Chaozhou typology...
- places,
although all were
above the waterline; her fore-topgallant yard and
foreyard had been shot away and a
number of
lower shrouds and
other rigging had...
-
fired a
broadside at the
vulnerable bows of Colossus,
damaging her main
foreyard and
causing her to miss stays. She
began to
drift out of the line while...
