- yard,
extending from the
slings to the ****ings for the
lifts and braces.
Yardarms The
outermost tips of the yard:
outboard from the
attachments for the lifts...
-
spars are
called yards and
their tips,
outside the lifts, are
called the
yardarms. A ship
mainly rigged so is
called a square-rigger. In 'Jackspeak' (Royal...
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flown on a
yardarm over
every park in New York City,
alongside the city flag and
beneath the flag of the
United States of America.
These yardarms were controversial...
- was the
pirate with most
captures during the
Golden Age of Piracy. He is now
known for
hanging the
governor of
Martinique from the
yardarm of his ship....
-
converted into a fish
factory ship. In 1985,
Yardarm Knot Inc. was
incorporated to
acquire M/V
Yardarm Knot,
which had been
sitting idle in Lake Washington...
-
customarily worn at the
foremasthead of multi-masted vessels, the
dockside yardarm or
crosstree of the mast of single-masted vessels,
while the
house flag...
- The Z flag (upper left) is
still flown daily from the
signal yardarm of Mikasa, now a
museum ship...
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ensign being flown from the
stern of the ship. It is also
flown from the
yardarm during a
general court-martial or
court of inquiry.
During times when the...
- ship on each side
above the waterline. Underdeck: a
lower deck of a ship.
Yardarm: an end of a yard spar
below a sail. Waterline:
where the
water surface...
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fleet at the
Battle of
Ponta Delgada,
captured enemies were
hanged from
yardarms, as they were
considered pirates by Philip II.
Opponents receiving the...
