- ****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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
- into the
water (on
emerging she
furiously demanded he be
hanged from the
foreyard arm). By his wife he had
three children: Sir
Ferdinand Richard Edward Dalberg-Acton...
-
afoul of a
large ship off Cape
Clear Island. Lord
Cathcart had lost her
foreyard and jib-boom, and had
suffered other damage. Mearns, Nichols, master, arrived...
-
received two
holes in the hull and the latter,
damage to the
mainmast and
foreyard.
During the
hours of darkness, the two
French ships crossed the bows 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...
-
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...
- Victory's p****age. The
broadsides cut Temeraire's rigging,
brought down her
foreyard and main topmast, and
damaged her fore mast and bowsprit. By now unmanageable...
