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- 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...
- Post in the native topmen system in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)...
- 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...
- 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...
- topmen when they complained. Other topmen were flogged the next morning. The combination of the humiliation of Casey, the deaths of the three topmen,...
- 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...
- 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...
- when at 03:00 Constellation's mainmast fell overboard, killing several topmen who went down with it. With the Americans unable to come alongside his vessel...
- "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...
- to go through with the rescue. He takes the captain's gig with several topmen and the former Captain's coxswain, Jackson, with him and sends the other...