The Lion had at the foremast the plain red streamer seen at Fig.
The men understood me and at once set to work, most of them going forward and attacking the foremast first, so as to get it down and out of the way before commencing upon the mainmast.
Parties were sent forth to reconnoitre, while our remaining foremast was unshipped, and planted on the highest part of the sandbank with a signal of distress.
The ships sailed on February 4th, but, as ill-luck had it, the Resolution sprung her foremast in a gale, and Cook resolved to return to Kealakekua Bay for repairs.
Her foremast had been shot away, and with it the for'ard funnel, which in ships of this class is close to the mast.
The stick will go by the board before long," remarked an officer, as the crippled foremast gave a sickening jerk with the roll of the ship to starboard.
Then the creature on the foremast laid a hand upon the lashings of the tops'l and undid them.
Against it the foremast stood out like the hand of an illuminated town clock, and not a detail of its rigging that was not as distinct as if etched against the sky.
The others then set to work vigorously, rousing up the end of a spare hawser, which had been coiled round the mainmast bitts, and securing it round the foremast head.
Captain Miles gravely, eyeing the foremast anxiously the while, fearful of anything being carried away, when we would be left to the mercy of the cruel waves.
Jackson, and those with him forward, having now done as much as they could to cast-off the foremast gear, Captain Miles hailed them to come aft.
As soon as we get the foremast clear she'll come up all standing, never fear!
On the third day, the rigging of the jury foremast was completed and the head-gear all attached to it, new sails being bent to the yards in the place of those that had been blown away.
The foremast is the main thing to get rid of now; and, unless the sea keeps still, we'll never manage to cut that away, for it is still more under water than the mainmast was.
He had been promoted from the foremast on account of his predecessor having died on the passage out.
No one seemed more surprised at the ending of the affair than the newly- promoted foremast hand.
In ten or fifteen minutes we saw the foremast of the third ship go by the board, and the second ship's main-top-sail-yard down upon the cap.
The heave of the sea lifted the vessel and dashed her on the coral a second and third time; the foremast was carried away, and the bottom was stove in.
The Pinta also sailed badly, her foremast being so defective that it could carry but little sail.
After her, forming a sort of sea-anchor, lolloped the derelict foremast which, by its buoyancy, was the first cause of all the mischief.
The big foremast which had struck the ship's quarter was stout enough, most unluckily, to support a thin wire rope, and this unseen assailant had fouled the propeller.
He and Sturgess had already dragged the foremast after them, and were shouldering it in the direction of the first hump of rock which seemed to offer a way into the cleft.
Then, as when he was lying along the foremast of the Southern Cross amid the thunders of the reef, a tiny seed of hope sprang into life in his brain.
An unlucky shot had cut the foremast (already wounded) in two, and all forward was a mass of dangling wreck.
When the sea broke around them in whiter sheets than usual, they could see the head of the broken foremast drawn against it like a black line to leeward.
There was light sufficient to enable us to see that the foremast was still standing.
As we approached her we saw that her mainmast was gone, that her foremast and yards were still standing, with their sails fluttering wildly from them.
At this time her bowsprit and foremast were shot away.
Finding it impossible to board, the Constitution filled her sails and shot ahead, and a moment later the Guerriere's foremast fell, and carried the mainmast, with it.
The American vessel had suffered very little injury, though her hull was peppered with grapeshot, a ball had passed through her foremast and one through her mainmast, and her upper rigging was considerably cut.
The latter kept up a most gallant and spirited fire till her foremast was shot away.
A minute or two afterward both the Frolic's masts went by the board--the foremastabout fifteen feet above the deck, the other short off.
The Americans, however, raked the British with terrible effect, cutting off their main top-mast above the cap, and their foremast near the cat harpings.
As the vessels separated the Penguin's foremastwent overboard, the bowsprit breaking short off.
Silence--not a word: three foremastguns main-deck, to your quarters.
That some dreadful punishment was about to be inflicted I was certain and I remained crouched behind the foremast on the lower-deck.
About thirty yards from us was the wreck of the foremast with many men clinging to it.
A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast.
Those who had the use of their limbs swarmed up the foremast and crossed over to the cliff.
She had been lashed to the cross-trees of the foremast soon after the ship had struck the rocks, and fully eight hours before Black Dennis Nolan had released her.
Here he removed the end of the rope from his waist and made it fast, thus rigging a life-line from the butt of the foremast aft to the cabin for the use of those to follow.
It was close upon noon when the first line was made fast between the cliff and the broken foremast of the wreck.
I once asked one of those fellows what he called the foremast in his language, and what d'ye think he said?
The wind continued light and the water smooth, but the fog thickened every minute: at last we could hardly see as far as the foremast of the vessel.
On our weather bow a vessel with herforemast gone was pitching heavily, and at times nearly buried beneath the wild tumult.
An explosion was brooding; theforemast hand, who had whaled for ten years, kept repeating, "A blow!
Stirling reached the heel of the foremast after cautiously rounding the fore hatch.
The Pole Star's foremast hands and the most of the harpooners and boat steerers would have delighted the eyes of an ethnologist.
The foremastis stepped about midway between the mainmast and the stem, and should be very nearly as high as the mainmast.
Two other stays extend from the maintop-mast to the foremast head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foremast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
