Bonham, who had sprung into the mizen rigging to ascertain the effect of the last broadside; "she's ours, if we are smart with our guns.
An officer and two or three men sprang into the "Marlborough's" mizen rigging to secure the bowsprit to it.
Scarcely has he tumbled over the side when the boat rushes down the greased ways and is launched into the surf; the mizen is already set, the foresail is hoisted with all speed, and the boat speeds on her way seaward.
All is joy and excitement, but at the same time steady attention to orders; now the boat is abreast the mizen rigging, opposite to where the men are clinging.
The mainsail and mizen are already close reefed, they are got ready for instant hoisting.
Close reeft the Topsails, handed the Main and Mizen Topsail, and got down Top Gallant Yards.
In the evening brought the Ship under her Courses, having first Split the Fore and Mizen Top sails; at Midnight wore and Stood to the Southward until 5 a.
Close reefd the Foretopsails and took in the Mizen Topsl, and at 10 set it again and let the reef out of the Fore top-sails.
Why was he, and not another, told off to spring up that reelingmizen into a high breeze that ended by mastering him, and flinging him as if he had been a poor wrestler matched with a champion?
In some mysterious fashion the mizen halliards had yielded and slipped for some distance after a sudden shock had cut the gaff halliards and let the jaws of the gaff free; so now the sail would neither haul up nor come down.
The skipper was then hanging as he best could to the mizen rigging; Lewis had his arms tightly locked on the port side round the futtock shrouds, and was cowering to get clear of the scourging wind.
The gaff of the mizen had broken away, halliards and all, as if a supernatural knife had been drawn across by a strong hand.
The Dreadnought, we saw, had lost her main and mizen topmasts, while nearly all her other masts and yards were greatly injured, and she also had received many shot in her hull, besides having lost as many men as we had.
The helm was put up, and at length, through the haze of a warm summer morning, the stranger was discovered, with her mizen topsail aback and her main topsail shivering, evidently awaiting the arrival of the Phoenix.
We have you now," cried the gallant captain, lashing, with the help of some of his men, the bowsprit of the enemy to his own mizen mast.
Lowering the main-sail I tried the yawl first under mizen and jib; but the rolling in every trough of the waves was most uncomfortable, and besides she drifted north, which might end by going ashore.
So I took down the ship-light from the mizen shroud, and held it between my knees that it might shine on the needle, and it was curious how much warmth came from this lantern.
Off with the mizen and set the storm-sail, and now haul up the anchor while yet there is time; and there was scarcely time before a rattling breeze got up, and waves rose too, and rain came down as we sailed off south to the open sea for room.
The sea was heavy, and as the two vessels rose and fell together on the huge swell, the strain was so great that the Penguin carried away the Hornet's mizen rigging and spanker boom, and swung round against her quarter.
On the weather side of the poop the watch, hanging on to the mizen rigging and to one another, tried to exchange encouraging words.
At midnight, orders were given to furl the fore and mizen topsails.
The gallant captain, though bleeding from more than one wound, stood by themizen shrouds conning the ship, and not till she was clear of the harbour and no shot came near her did he relinquish his post.
In this guise the Centurion was sore galled and battered, her main-mast greatly wounded, all her sails filled with shot holes, and her mizen mast and stern rendered almost unserviceable.
The lower yard on the mizen-mast, to the arms of which the clues of the mizen top-sail are extended.
To contract a sail into a narrower compass;--this is peculiar to the mizen of a ship, and to the main-sail of those vessels wherein it is extended by a boom.
A sort of Greek ketch, which has no top-gallant nor mizen sails, but still spreads much canvas.
It is mostly equipped with a main and a mizen mast, and somewhat resembles a ketch or a galliot.
A name applied on the great lakes of North America to a vessel square-rigged on the fore-mast, and fore-and-aft rigged on the main and mizen masts.
The operation of balancing the mizen is performed by lowering the yard or gaff a little, then rolling up a small portion of the sail at the peak or upper corner, and lashing it about one-fifth down towards the mast.
The flags borne on the mizenwere particularly called gallants.
For this purpose the mizen top-sail is generally used; a hawser should be kept ready to wind her, and if the wind falls she must be hove apeak.
A complete system of parallel lines, hoisted between the main and mizen masts twice a week to dry the washed clothes of the seamen.
Other ships show equally curious variations, though we need not stop to detail them, except that in one case both fore and mizen masts are surmounted by plain red flags.
Cross of St. George in one and the harp in the other; the main and mizen masts are shown with flags containing St. George's Cross only, as in Fig.
We took down the topsails and mizen in order to mend the courses, which at last were the only sails we used.
This business came to such a point that the Captain, Don Diego, ordered an arquebus to be fired at one of the sailors who went up the mizen mast.
And when it comes, I would heave the ship to with her close-reefed fore topsail aback; also I would have a small tarpaulin ready to lash in the weather mizen rigging in case the topsails should blow away.
According to the old proverb, Misfortunes seldom come single; the mizen was now the only mast on board the Resolution that remained rigged, with its top-mast up.
One was to start from the fore-top, the other from the mizen cross-trees.
While the ship was thus laboring, we were ordered to lighten her top hamper, by sending down the fore and mizen top-gallant and main royal yards.
The launch hooked on under her bows, and the first cutter made fast to her fore chains, while the yawl grappled her by the mizen chains, and the second cutter by the main.
Our ensign was streaming out in the breeze, as flat as a board, from the mizen peak, but neither of the strangers had thus far condescended to show us the colour of their bunting.
The Roland left the Cape upon the 11th of July, but she was almost immediately overtaken by a frightful tempest, which carried away two topsails, the jib, and the mizen mast.
The struggle was hot, the straw mats which filled the rigging of the galleon took fire and the flames rose as high as the mizen mast.
Lastly, he climbed up the mizen mast, and from that elevated position observed all parts of the vessel.
It is hoisted at themizen top-gallant-masthead when the Queen is on board, the Royal Standard and the flag of the Lord High Admiral being at the same time hoisted at the main and fore top-gallant-mastheads respectively.
Subsequently the Essex hoisted her motto flag at the fore, and another on the mizen mast, with one American ensign at the mizen peak and a second lashed on the main rigging.
The mistake was discovered before the flags had got halfway to the mizen peak, when they were hauled down and hoisted properly.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mizen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
