We got the junk in by cutting it in two pieces, for the old man wouldn't risk the mainmast to lift the whole on it.
We also attached a purchase to the mainmast head, and to a tree on the shore, to assist in careening the ship.
The vessel I was in had her foremast shot away, which they supplied very expeditiously by taking a mainmast from a smaller vessel.
Wanting a boom, he took out the mainmast of one of these ships to supply the want.
The captain took a long look at it through his perspective glass, anc made out that it was a two-masted grab; themainmast was gone.
The mainmast bore one huge sail, triangular in form, its peak extending to a considerable height above the mast.
The mainmast of the gallivat had been struck by a shot and had gone by the board.
The foremast and funnels were gone, the brave ship was a tangle of broken steel fore and aft, but the mainmast still stood and upon it floated the naval ensign of Germany.
One day, for an imagined insolence, he had trussed up Nigger to the mainmast in this very fashion, and left him there for a short half-hour.
Bickerton was the leading spirit in the work and subsequently steadied the mainmast with eighteen wire stays, in the determination to make it stable enough to weather the worst hurricane.
We did not linger over the scenery, but set to work to hoist to the head of the mainmast the aerial, which had been hurriedly put together.
The mainmast was to be in two instead of three lengths, and we wondered if the aerial would be high enough.
The wind smote the straining mainsail, and the shivered mainmast tore from its stays and socket.
A creaking from themainmast told that it might fall at any moment.
The smaller canvas on the foremast and great spread on the mainmast were bellying to the piping gale.
The buccaneers sometimes used brigantines, vessels with two masts, the fore or mizzenmast being square-rigged with two sails and the mainmast rigged like that of a barque.
Hereupon he instantly commanded the mainmastof the said ship should be cut down and burnt, together with all the other boats that were in the port.
After some fighting he took a prize, but soon after had to cut away his mainmast in a storm, and return to England.
Once, too, at the bottom of a slope down which they had bumped dizzily, Duncan again looked out, and saw the spar of a mainmast tossing just over the edge of a grey roller.
They were forward by the mainmast at the time the wave struck them.
The deck was flush fore and aft, and there was a good-sized house just before where the mainmast should have been.
He was mistaken: the smoke cleared, and there was the pirate captain leaning wounded against the mainmast with a Yankee bullet in his shoulder, and his crew uttering yells of dismay and vengeance.
The mainmast was shivered, and a wave started one of the planks, and the pumps became useless.
On the margin of the wood, among three or four houses, a pole as tall as the mainmast of a ship had been erected, and from its summit hung wreaths and fluttering ribbons: this was called a maypole.
One of them, whose distance from us was perhaps a mile, appeared higher than the mainmast head, and as the top shot up into a tall column, it looked like a vast rock with a light-house on its pinnacle.
He went out of Boston harbour perched on the end of the foresail boom, and was at the mainmast head before we had cleared the light-house.
Her mainstay is loose in the partners, and the cross-trestles both of her foremast, and also of her mainmast are broken.
It was at this time that, according to a legend for which there is not much foundation, he hoisted a broom at his mainmast top as the outward and visible sign of his intention to sweep the Channel.
This craft was almost defenceless, owing to the loss of her mainmast and mizzen-topmast.
Work was at once begun, and before sundown the fore and mizzen masts were as firmly secured as if the mainmast were still in its place.
But at that moment a violent squall struck his ship with its full force, and her mainmast snapped a few feet above the deck.
I should not attempt to get up a jury mainmaston the Camille.
Ten more shots were fired, and with the last the pirate’s mainmast went over the side.
She is a lame duck now,” Will said, “but we may as well take her mainmast out of her too.
I cannot testify concerning the mainmast, though it certainly does comport itself like no other mainmast I ever saw; but the other statements and many more which might be added, are, I believe, substantially correct.
Our foremast being thus fixed, we surveyed it with infinite satisfaction, and then turned to and fitted the brig with a mainmast in the same fashion.
I observed soon after themainmast had gone that the wind had fallen, and that there was somewhat less sea running, and in a short time the light began to increase.
I had got as far as the mainmast when I saw that the brig's head was moving round, so I sprang back to right the helm.
Her sails were also torn, hermainmast and main-topsail yard and foreyard a good deal injured.
The maindeck before the mainmast was torn up from the waterway to the hatchways, and the bits were shot away, as was the chief part of the gangways.
And Aflatun and Aristu Let their Beards grow, and their Beards grew Round and about the mainmast tree Where they stood still, and watched the sea.
But Aflatun and Aristu, Who had no work that they could do, Gazed at the stranger Ship and Sea With their beards around the mainmast tree.
She's a schooner, but her mainmast is gone close to the deck.
The two seamen were able to state that they were the sole survivors of a crew of six, the other four having been carried overboard when the mainmast went over Thursday night.
The hooker needed no looking after in such weather as this, and the only individual, beside ourselves, abaft the mainmast was the helmsman.
Our foremast was shot through the middle, our mainmast wounded, the main stay, and many of the main shrouds, cut asunder.
The mainmastwas split, and the noise made by it, as it was beaten about by the gale was deafening.
She continued to fire her balls and shells with murderous intent until the balls from St. Mark's direction had cut her mainmast down.
The weight of the mainmasthanging over the side of the vessel was so great that the vessel heeled over to leeward.
Imagination grew a little delirious, and I would sometimes fancy that the terrible shape at the foot of the mainmast moved as if seeking to free itself and approach me.
Soon every stitch of canvas on the mainmast is swung about to face the breeze, while that on the foremast is hauled in.
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.
The mainmast has not been cut adrift; it will be a dangerous task," said the coxswain.
We were casting our eyes over the German Ocean, when we saw what we took to be a brig, with hermainmast gone, and several of her sails blown away, evidently steering for Peterhead.
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