If the three-masted merchantman which lay becalmed was not visible at break of day it was because she had been scuttled by the tug, boarded by the cut-throat band on the Ebba, and sunk with all on board after being pillaged.
The strange ship, which is a three-masted merchantman, is taking in her top-gallant sails.
During this time the watchers on the hill saw that the brig had been lying alongside the three-masted vessel, and felt sure that the cargo was being transferred, then the merchantman's sails were hoisted, and she slowly sailed away.
You know well enough if you talk to a sailor about a ship he'd suppose you meant a full-rigged three-masted vessel.
Yes, sir, I've watched 'em aboard that there three-masted schooner.
My interest in the subject was soon superseded by one nearer to my heart; for as I left the hut I beheld, about four miles off, a large three-masted vessel bearing up the Gulf, with all her canvas spread.
Those masted hulls, relieved of their cargo, become restless at the slightest hint of the wind's freedom.
The mere hint of his approach fills with dread every craft that swims the sea, from fishing-smacks to four-masted ships that recognise the sway of the West Wind.
His little two-masted smack was lying alongside the "Harmony," ready for a start to his fishing place.
Now there was a Spanish warship lying in the port, of the kind called a xebec, a sort of three-masted vessel common in the Mediterranean Sea.
A few minutes before she had been a stately three-masted frigate; now she was a helpless hulk.
He was master of a three-masted coaster, he told me.
There was a big four-masted coaster bound south, too, and light, and for the best part of the night we had a drifting match with her.
She was designed by Mr. St. Clare Byrne, of Liverpool and may be technically defined as a screw composite three-masted topsail-yard schooner.
For many years the three-masted schooner was the most popular kind of American merchant vessel.
Rapidly the four-master gained favor, and then came the five- and six-masted vessels, gigantic ships of their kind.
Without hesitation Talbot somehow got this absurdly impudent one-masted craft of his under way and told those of his sixty men who survived to prepare for a second tussle.
She was in fact no larger than such four-masted coasting schooners as claw around Hatteras with deck-loads of Georgia pine or fill with coal for down East, and manage it comfortably with seven or eight men for a crew.
Perhaps you have seen a two-masted vessel with yards on her foremast and none on her main.
But can there be a man who has seen tall-masted schooners and long-bodied ocean-going steamers pass in and out of the alluring Golden Gate, and has never longed to sail away to the enchanted South Seas, or to Alaska.
I'd choose me a four-masted schooner, carrying freight and going somewhere, anywhere, no one knows where.
September 14 a lofty three-masted ship, heading north, was seen from the masthead.
On the following day, September 13, a large four-masted ship passed some distance to windward, heading north.
One of the ships which were to sail with the next fleet was the Ter Schilling, a three-masted vessel, now laid up and unrigged.
By the time Philip was on deck the vessel had been distinctly made out to be a three-masted xebeque, very low in the water.
It was a single-masted reefing sail, invented just in time for the Trojan War, with an upper yard fitted with a system of lines whereby it could be furled up and then secured aloft.
How blue the river was, how picturesque the tall-masted ships, how good the tang of the autumn air, laden with the odor of leaf-wine.
Before them lay the two-masted steamer, with a thick volume of smoke rolling up from her main hatchway.
The Ice King was a two-masted steamer that had been built for use in the icy seas of the north.
Under the name of the Kraken marvelous tales were told of its destruction of ships, one of them, it being said, embracing a three-masted ship in its gigantic arms.
Fourteen four-masted ships, a part of them with crews of two hundred and fifty men, were equipped and victualled for two years.
In three-masted vessels the largest mast was nearest the stern.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "masted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
