How To Use Topgallant In A Sentence
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Then the topgallant masts and sail fell onto the forecastle, dragging in the water until cut free.
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Of historical interest are the topgallant sails carried on the fore and main masts, the lateen topsails and topgallants on the mizzen and the topsail on the bonaventure mizzen mast at the stern.
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A great one to carry sail; yet in the sixteen years of his commands he had had no more serious accident than the loss of a fore-topgallant mast or splitting a couple of courses.
Java Head
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Sure, you need to be able to tell the contemporary equivalent of a fore topgallant from a mizzen topsail, but that's what all those seminars and lectures are for.
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Fitted above the topgallants were royals and above them skysails.
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Gaskets made of French sennit are only used for topgallant and royal yards.
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She is generally under two topsails, fore and main topsails, fore and foretopmast staysails, sometimes topgallant sails and jib, but seldom any sail on the mizzen, except while in chase of a vessel.
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At 9: 30p.m. on July 25, 1850, a sleek Baltimore clipper with her topgallants and topsails set approached the treacherous Mendocino coast.
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On Rose, the lower masts are steel and the topmasts and topgallant masts are wooden, typically pine or spruce.
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A glance revealed that the main topgallant mast had been carried away.
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In the right foreground is the French ship ‘Bucentaure’ in starboard-bow view, with her mizzen mast and main topgallant mast shot away.
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Her topgallant, royal and skysail masts are of single spars.
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The square sails on the mainmast are called, when eight are carried, the mainsail, lower and upper maintopsails, lower and upper maintopgallants, main-royal, main-skysail, and the moonsail.
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
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Her fore and mizen topgallant masts had been carried away, the topgallant sails hung before the topsails, with the main topgallant masts standing, and all her sails set.
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When I use Mikes numbers the main and topmasts fits but the topgallant masts seemed to be about 1/3 too high.
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Between whiles, and all the while, he gauged the gusts, and ever his eyes lifted to the main-topgallant-yard.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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And the men jumped, though in their weakness the climb aloft was slow and toilsome; and when the gaskets were off the topgallant-sails and the men on deck were hoisting yards and sheeting home, those aloft were loosing the royals.
CHAPTER XL
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The boy stood on the lee side of the poop, and was looking over the side at the wreck of the fore-topgallant mast, which was still attached to the ship by the stay and braces of the yard, the men not yet having time to cut it adrift -- all hands being busy in doing what was possible to save the main-topgallant mast, that had begun to show signs of giving way.
The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land
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She has not yet made preparations for heavy weather, as top and topgallant masts are still up.
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Another struck the ship's beakhead, whistling a shred of wood high into the air, then a tearing, ripping, rustling sound made Sharpe look up to see that the Pucelle's main topgallant mast, the slenderest and highest portion of the mainmast, was falling to bring down a tangle of rigging and the main topgallant sail with it.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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We had a wonderful sail last night. 20 kt winds, heeled over slightly with tops and topgallants set - a great feeling.
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She thanked me breathlessly as I dragged her by main force to the mizenmast and passed a couple of turns of the topgallant halyard round her waist, securing her to a belaying pin; and by the time that this was done the gust, like the first, had passed.
The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise
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And at this moment the watch swarmed on to the poop to haul on the port-braces of the mizzen-sky-sail, royal and topgallant-sail.
CHAPTER XXVI
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But at two bells in the second dog-watch, that night, all doubt was put an end to by a sudden, startling cry from the lookout on the fore-topgallant yard of:
The Castaways
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This Arctic scene causes our captain and his officers to look rather serious, and they mount at times to the fore-topgallant mast.
God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada
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On large ships, the topgallant sail sometimes comprises 2 separate sails for the same reason.
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He had picked up some of the names, but he had no idea which sail the mizzen skysail was, nor the fore topgallant.
Wellspring of Chaos
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The foretop and topgallant – mast came down with a run and hung in wreckage on the fore – mast, with the foreyard vertical.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917
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In a short time the topgallant sails and mainsail were handed and preparations made to reef the fore topsail.
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After the topgallant got to be pretty standard shipwrights started making the topgallant mast taller.
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The topgallant royal is a small spar which is often a continuation of the topgallant mast, and is fixed.
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We also slept in hammocks, stood lookout watch at the end of the jibboom and furled topgallant sails during beautiful evening sunsets.
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See attached, a quick mock-up to approximate where the topgallant masts should actually be.
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A sleeve was plug welded to the topgallant mast on shore.
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Jane_, as the fore-topmast had soon snapped off sharp at the cap like a carrot, bringing with it, of course, the fore-topgallant mast as well, and the main-topgallant mast, with their respective yards and other spars, and the jib-boom as well.
Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
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She came along handsomely, with foam to the hawsepipe, thanks to the freshening breeze, and her main royal and topgallantsail clewing up as she approached, for our signal had been seen; then drove close alongside with her topsail aback and in a few minutes we were aboard, shaking hands with Captain Blow, and all others who extended a fist to us, and spinning our yarn in response to the eager questions put.
The Honour of the Flag
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The rig has at least three square sails: the course on the lower mast, the topsail on the topmast and the topgallant sail on the topgallant mast.
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And each time Mr. Pike glanced aloft at the naked topgallant - and royal-yards, I knew his thought was that they might well be carrying sail.
CHAPTER XXIX
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This purchase is fitted for the purpose pose of setting topgallant rigging up smartly; the upper block in large ships is a double block.
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Above the main-mast was a top-mast or topgallant-mast, called the distaff; the yards were hoisted up much as in the present day, and were secured by parrels or hoops to the mast.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
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Each square sail had its name: mainsail, topsail, topgallant sail, royal, skysail, and moonsail; each smaller as one looked upward.
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Presently, therefore, I sprang into the mizen rigging and made my way aloft to the mizen topmast crosstrees, from which I directed the operation of sending down the royal and topgallant yards, and afterwards took a hand in sending down the topgallant mast, having the satisfaction of finding, when I returned to the deck, that we on the mizenmast had beaten both Briscoe and Kennedy.
The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise
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About midnight we lost the main topgallant sail, which is the next to the highest of five sails on the mainmast.
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If it freshens more, though, between this and eight bells, you can take in the topgallants if you like, and a reef in the topsails as well.
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The lookout at the fore-topgallant masthead was hailing.
Hornblower In The West Indies
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The jibsails came down smoothly, then the topsails, until only the topgallants were still drawing.
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Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off.
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Jane_, as the fore-topmast had soon snapped off sharp at the cap like a carrot, bringing with it, of course, the fore-topgallant mast as well, and the main-topgallant mast, with their respective yards and other spars, and the jib-boom as well.
Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
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By the end of the reign of the carrack, a third sail, the topgallant sail had appeared in some ships above the topsail in its topgallant mast.
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An extremly intricate knot orginally used for belaying the topgallant foresheets of a gaff-rigged China clipper, and now more commonly observed when trying to gen an old kite out of the cupboard under the stairs.
The Meaning of Liff
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These braces come down to the ship's sides, or to the heads of the masts fore and aft of those on which the yard is swung; all the mizzen-braces working on the mainmast; the maintopgallant, mainroyal and skysail braces working on the mizzenmast; and the foretopgallant and foreroyal braces working on the mainmast, as is clearly shown in our illustration.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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The wind, during the night, had so eased that by nine in the morning we had all our topgallant-sails set.
CHAPTER XXVIII
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We always like seeing the topgallants run back up in spring.
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In our illustration the vessel has set her fore studding-sail, her fore-topmast studding-sail and her fore-topgallant studding-sail -- studding-sail being pronounced stu'nsail, just as topgallant-sail is telescoped into topgantsail.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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Sometimes additional pieces of wood were fastened to the topmasts, which carried topgallant sails.
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The skysails were already furled; men were furling the royals; and the topgallant-yards were running down while clewlines and buntlines bagged the canvas.
CHAPTER XXXIII
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Mildmay stood for a moment, as one in a dream, watching the submergence of the ill-fated _Mercury's_ jib-boom end and fore-topgallant mast-head
The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure
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The overlapping view makes it difficult to sort out the various spars, but it appears that the foremast has only lower and topmasts, while topgallants are carried on the main and mizen.
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Aye, aye, sir," the boy answered readily, for he enjoyed being aloft, and he clambered up the shrouds to the fore-topgallant yard and furled the sail, taking a pride in having it lie smooth and round on the top of the yard.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries
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Between whiles, and all the while, he gauged the gusts, and ever his eyes lifted to the main-topgallant-yard.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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All the miracle of sails; the steady foresail; the sensitive jibs; the press canvas delicate as bubbles; the reliable main; the bluff topsails; topgallants like eager horses; the impertinent skysails; the jaunty moonraker, were just canvas stretched on poles.
The Wind Bloweth
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Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off.
CHAPTER XXIX
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The topmast in turn supported the topgallant mast, which could be lowered and replaced, if necessary, even at sea.
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There was a similar raised place forward, called the topgallant forecastle.
Peter the Whaler
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It would be good to set the mizzen-topgallant," I heard Captain West mutter in a weak, quavery voice.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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We had hauled the trysails and other fore and aft canvas, which was comparatively useless to a steamer when running before the wind at the time we had altered course towards the south, in quest of the ship in distress, the _Star of the North_ speeding along with only her fore - topsail and fore-topgallantsail set in addition to her fore-topmast staysail and mizzen staysail and jib.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
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He was Mulligan Jacobs; and he picked his way back across the wreck of the bridge where the fore-topgallant-yard still lay, and came up to me unafraid, as implacable and bitter as ever.
CHAPTER L
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The term ship, as usually applied, has reference to a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts -- a mainmast, a foremast and a mizzenmast; and these three masts are each composed of three parts, namely, a lowermast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast.
The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island
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Mr. Pike was so fooled that he actually had set the topgallant-sails, and the gaskets were being taken off the royals, when the Samurai came on deck, strolled back and forth a casual five minutes, then spoke in an undertone to Mr. Pike.
CHAPTER XXIX
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Above the courses come the lower topsails, above them the upper topsails, above them the lower topgallant-sails, then the upper topgallant-sails, then the royals, and, on the mainmast, the skysail, though sometimes there are skysails to all masts, and over the main skysail comes a "scraper" or moon-raker.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
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Once round Start Point, however, the reefs will be shaken out and possibly topgallants set.
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On the topgallant mast is the topgallant sail, on big vessels divided into two sails, like the topsail.
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They often carried a spare set of topgallant masts of shorter height which they interchanged according to the prevailing weather.
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In the afternoon set the fore and main topgallant sails. 1pm set the mizzen topgallant sail and spanker.
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I should explain that the space under the topgallant forecastle was divided by a bulkhead running fore and aft into parts forming separate cabins, one called the starboard, and the other the larboard berths, with bunks built up on both sides, one above another, or rather, in two stories, to explain myself better.
Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures
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She had a full set of sails including double topsails, single topgallant sails and nothing above the royal yards.
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The skysails were already furled; men were furling the royals; and the topgallant-yards were running down while clewlines and buntlines bagged the canvas.
CHAPTER XXXIII
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Above the upper topsails are the topgallant sails and above these, the royals and the skysails.
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Masted in three masted barque with topgallant, royal and double topsails, she had a wooden masting containing top masts and topgallant masts of a single piece and a bowsprit without jib-boom.
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She was a deep-waisted vessel, with three masts, the foremast and mainmast square-rigged, while the aftermast carried a long lateen-shaped sail called the mizen, with a square topsail and topgallantsail.
The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley
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Several of the hands, including Foucault and Parratt, had followed, and all looked up; and there they saw the body of Nilsson, hanging on the front of the fore-topgallant sail.
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman
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Constitution had royals above her topgallants, and later she had even higher sails called skysails.
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Above the topmast was added the topgallant mast and above that the topgallant mast royal.
