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Topgallant may
refer to:
Topgallant sail
Topgallant mast
Topgallant Islands, an
island group in
South Australia This
disambiguation page
lists articles...
- On a
square rigged sailing vessel, a
topgallant sail (
topgallant alone pronounced "t'gallant",
topgallant sail
pronounced "t'garns'l", is the square-rigged...
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called masts). From
lowest to highest,
these were called: lower, top,
topgallant, and
royal masts.
Giving the
lower sections sufficient thickness necessitated...
- ship-rigged, with each mast
stepped in
three segments: lower, top, and
topgallant.
Other large, multi-masted
sailing vessels may be
regarded as "ships"...
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schooner also has a
square topsail on the foremast, to
which may be
added a
topgallant.
Differing definitions leave uncertain whether the
addition of a fore...
- fore-and-aft
mainsail (a gaff sail) and
square topsails and
possibly topgallant sails. The
brigantine was the second-most po****r rig for
ships built...
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waterborne craft.
Since the
early nineteenth century, the
topsails and
topgallants are
often split into a
lower and an
upper sail to
allow them to be more...
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Today the
first three masts are
rigged with
double top-sails,
single topgallants,
royals and a main skysail.
Rafael Trujillo,
ruler of the
Dominican Republic...
- runs
forward and
downwards from the top of the
mizzen topgallant mast is the
mizzen topgallant staysail. If two
staysails are
hoisted to
different points...
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imagination –
above the
mainmast (for example) is the main-topmast, main-
topgallant-mast and main-royal-mast, so that the top is
actually about 1/4 to 1/3...
