I made a short speech, and with three cheers for the Emperor, first in command, the war flag and pennant fluttered up to the masthead of His Majesty's latest ship, the schooner Ayesha.
We expected at any moment to see the masthead of an English ship appear above the horizon.
The Imperial war flag flew proudly at the masthead of my flagship, and with three cheers for His Majesty, the Emperor, we began our onward journey.
At ten o'clock in the morning the lookout at the masthead reported: "Land in sight ahead.
The Patuxent was a very pretty schooner of about one hundred tons,--had formerly been engaged in the slave-trade, but now bore at her masthead a flag showing that she carried the mail for Uncle Sam.
Decatur directed the attention of the masthead man to the strange sails to the leeward.
An hour later he pointed out the Almena's number flying from the mastheadof the steamer.
As it led in a straight line from the royal-masthead to the rail, this meant that he would fall overboard, and the thought comforted him.
Sometimes from themasthead I could see the whole ocean alive with them.
They were soon not discernible from the deck, and on they went increasing their distance till even the look-out from the masthead could no longer distinguish them.
We had left Juan Fernandez more than a month, when a cry came from the masthead of "Land ho!
Though Jim and I were well enough to walk about the deck, we were too weak to venture aloft, or we should have been at the masthead looking out for land.
Father, therefore, gladly accepted his offer, being sure that he would do his best for Jack; and as Blue Peter was flying from the masthead of the brig, there was no time to be lost in taking him on board.
About noon one day the look-out from the masthead shouted-- "There she spouts!
From the masthead above a signal lamp flashed intermittently for a few seconds.
Directly Engstrom and Tegelmund were in custody, an innocent-looking signal flag flew from the masthead of the submarine, and the officials of the Surete ashore made their pounce.
From the masthead a sailor called out that he saw a winding river, coursing through grassy marshes, which grew broad and green-gray as it reached the ocean.
On coming on deck I saw Blue Peter flying at the masthead of our own ship, and at those of the two other men-of-war, a frigate and a corvette, and of all the merchantmen.
At last one morning the look-out at the masthead shouted, "A sail to the eastward coming down before the wind.
One morning, just at daybreak, the look-out from the masthead announced that he saw three sail to windward.
As I got to the topgallant masthead I looked eagerly to the southward, and I made out what I took to be a large fleet standing to the eastward, while here and there ships were scattered about, which I took to be frigates.
So you went up to the masthead to look for me, old chap?
Young Mr Bob Howlett'll be up at the masthead spying out with his glass, see if he ain't.
At the masthead I made the acquaintance of two youngsters of about my own age, one of whom informed me that he had been there three hundred and thirty-two days out of the year.
The plunging whirls of themasthead light were enough to prove how the unfortunate vessel was laboring in what might prove to be her final agony.
Far out in the Channel he saw the twinkling masthead lights of several steamers.
At the masthead flew his Salem flag, Old Glory, to which he never referred but by that loving pseudonym.
But throughout a long career as master of a merchantman the Stars and Stripes was never lowered from the masthead nor sullied by defeat or by dishonor.
And everywhere, The slender graceful spars Poise aloft in the air And at the masthead White, blue, and red, A flag unfolds, the Stripes and Stars.
With that the Ranger glided gracefully through the fleet of ships; and Old Glory, in all the radiance of her new birth and coloring, waved response from the masthead to her first salute from European powers.
In the morning, on the 7th of May, a man at the masthead of the Tigre sang out that he saw ships in the offing; and in reply to the signal that was hastily run up, he saw the distant vessels hoist friendly flags.
If we're not aboard by eight bells, old Bracebridge 'll masthead us.
But the bit of bunting at her masthead has nothing on its field either of menace or defiance.
The lookout on the masthead has sighted Mauna-Loa.
Above its top the masthead light shed a yellow glimmer, and far below, the sea leapt and frothed about the line of hull.
Her masthead lights reeled wildly to and fro, but the low red gleam from the barges was hidden and he began to wonder why her captain was steering out so far.
St. Elmo appeared on the masthead with a lighted candle and sometimes two during the storms encountered along the coasts of Guinea, and that the sailors were greatly comforted thereby, and saluted the saint as is the custom of seamen.
St. Elmo’s fire is the popular name for the atmospheric electricity that gathers in the form of a star or brush about the masthead of ships and on the rigging.
At the same time the German flag at the masthead was dipped in salute.
He gave an order, however, and the American ensign at the masthead of the Yucatan returned the salute.
Five minutes later the British ensign was run up the mastheadand fluttered in the breeze.
The Duke caused a lantern To be placed in his ship at the masthead So that the other ships might see it And hold their course near him.
The earliest surviving orders directing the Lord High Admiral to fly the royal standard at the masthead are those of 1545, at the end of Henry VIII's reign.
To come to a closer engagement"; the blue and white flag (two horizontal stripes) at the fore topgallant masthead under the signal for engaging.
In such cases it may be presumed that both, if indeed they were not embarked in the same ship, bore the St George's flag or royal standard at the masthead and were distinguished by banners of their personal arms.
The signal to "Prepare for battle" was the red flag at the main topgallant masthead under the Admiral's flag.
A masthead lookout, who had first seen the midshipmen, was now signaling the way to the officer in command of the launch.
Unable to see for himself, the officer in the launch depended wholly on those masthead signals.
Within another hour it was possible to signal, and from the "Princess Irene's" masthead the signal flags were broken out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "masthead" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
