- The mast of a
sailing vessel is a tall spar, or
arrangement of spars,
erected more or less
vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat. Its purposes...
- mainmast, both
noticeably taller than the
single or
double lateen-rigged
mizzenmasts with
their sloped lateen-rig yards, and
below those the
square quarter...
- feet. She
carried a square-rigged fore and
mainmast and a lateen-rigged
mizzenmast.
Although there are no
existing records, she
likely had a high sterncastle...
-
toward the
stern of a ship, or
further back from a location, e.g. "the
mizzenmast is
abaft the mainmast". Aboard: onto or
within a ship, or in a group....
- is a gaff-rigged, fore-and-aft sail,
mounted on the
after side of the
mizzenmast. It was used to help tack the vessel. For
square sails (from
bottom to...
- are: Foremast,
which is the
second tallest mast Mainmast, the
tallest Mizzenmast, the
third tallest Jiggermast,
which may not be
present but will be fourth...
- (or sterncastle,
sometimes aftcastle) is the
stern structure behind the
mizzenmast and
above the
transom on
large sailing ships, such as carracks, caravels...
- code book. The code
numbers are
believed to have been
hoisted on the
mizzenmast, one
after another, with the "telegraphic flag" (a red-over-white diagonally-split...
- the
following high tides. John the
Painter was
hanged in 1777 from the
mizzenmast of HMS
Arethusa for
arson in
royal dockyards, the
highest temporary gallows...
- were square-rigged on the
foremast and
mainmast and lateen-rigged on the
mizzenmast. They had a high
rounded stern with aftcastle,
forecastle and bowsprit...
