One of them hit the maintopmast of the Wasp and cut it square off.
As he sailed out a squall struck the Essex and knocked her maintopmast into the sea.
The maintopmast immediately snapped and went over the side, dragging the foretopmast with it.
It was clewed up, and just as another apprentice and myself were getting into the rigging to go up and furl it one of the chain-plates of the maintopmast backstays carried away.
Fix'd a newmaintopmast Backstay, the old one having broke several times.
In the Morning the Carpenter reported the Maintopmast to be Sprung in the Cap, which we supposed hapned in the P.
They kept on, and our men reported an ensign in their maintopmast rigging as a signal of distress, which made me doubt they had sprung their mainmast.
The maintopmast staysail was taken in and the lower sail reduced to double-reefed foresail, triple-reefed mainsail and reefed and unbonneted forestay-sail.
I did not see the shot strike anywhere, but almost immediately afterwards down came her maintopmast and the peak of her mainsail.
In less than an hour I had the maintopmast on deck and was constructing the shears.
From the deck to the truck of the maintopmast is something over a hundred feet, while the foremast with its topmast is eight or ten feet shorter.
The maintopmast was over thirty feet in length, the foretopmast nearly thirty, and it was of these that I intended making the shears.
If the ship flies off and gets by the lee, the foretopsail is soon braced about, and, with the maintopmast staysail sheet shifted to the other side, the headway is not lost.
It has been thought that with the wind quartering and a heavy sea, a vessel is more under command with a close-reefed foretopsail and maintopmast staysail.
I hastened aft to where Smellie stood grasping the maintopmast backstay, and was greeted by him with the characteristic remark of: "What a fellow he must be, and what nerve he must have!
For a general attack, or the whole fleet to engage, the standard at the maintopmast head, with the striped Jack and ensign at their proper places.
For boarding any vessel, Jack at maintopmast head, and the whole fleet to draw up in a line as near as possible.
For speaking with the whole fleet, ensign at maintopmast head.
So long as the boom mainsail held, however, it was fairly offset by the fall of the "Wasp's" maintopmast and its consequences.
Attacked by two ships, she lost her maintopmast and had also to haul off for repairs.
As he passed the English rear, he lost his maintopmast and mainyard.
Sighting the enemy about noon, Du Guay Trouin immediately attacked the Falcon, and with his first few broadsides inflicted immense damage, sending her maintopmast by the board, and smashing her mainyard.
A loud cheer burst from their throats as they saw the enemy's maintopmast go over the side.
The Thisbe had already as much sail set as she could carry, but Lieutenant Sterling was making an effort to get up a maintopmast on board the prize.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maintopmast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
