- as "
topmen" and were
considered the most
experienced men aboard. In all, the six
watch teams were as follows:[citation needed] Aloft: Fore
topmen, main...
-
French frigate La
Vengeance on 2
February 1800. Sent
aloft in
command of the
topmen to
secure Constellation's
unsupported mainmast, he
refused to come down...
-
topmen when they complained.
Other topmen were
flogged the next morning. The
combination of the
humiliation of Casey, the
deaths of the
three topmen,...
- Post in the
native topmen system in
Ceylon (Sri Lanka)...
- as a
naval officer. The crew felt
Casey was
punished unfairly, and the
topmen began to plot mutiny.As
historian Niklas Frykman, has written, "the Hermione...
- the
windward side of the ship) was
considered a
place of
honor for the
topmen, and on a
merchant ship was the
position of the
second mate
during reefing...
-
across the gundeck. As the
distance closed, the Shannon's gun
crews and
topmen kept up a
relentless fire, and the
unprotected quarter-deck
became as uninhabitable...
- that the guns
appeared remarkably clean save for the
footprints of the
topmen who had
stood on them to
ascend the
shrouds some time after. This was explained...
- "captain of the fore-top" was the
leader of one of the
elite teams of "
topmen" who were the most
skilled sailors aboard the ship,
working high
above the...
-
master helmsman, one
master carpenter and one load master), 17 able
seamen (
topmen,
helmsmen and gunners), 20 seamen, 7 boys, 34
volunteers and 11 others....
