Warrisden could see boat tackle being rigged to the main yards and men standing about the boats capsized on deck.
There rose before Tony's eyes the picture of a ketch-rigged boat sailing at night over a calm sea.
Two hundred years before, a great full-rigged ship, bound with a general cargo for the Guinea Coast, sailed down the Channel out of Portsmouth.
In the early days of the siege a great deal of scooping and excavating went on, and you might see on one side some gallant tiller of the soil providing cover for a lady, while another rigged up sheltered garden-seats for children.
Captain Scott has also rigged up a searchlight on a railway truck with a flasher attachment, the idea being to use it for communication with Kimberley and Ladysmith if these places are surrounded.
The poor creatures were made to lie down side by side, and sails being got up were spread over them, while screens were rigged to keep off the wind, and an awning stretched over all.
All hands who could be spared from their culinary duties, riggedout in their cleanest, were marshalled to serve as a guard of honour.
The three vessels sailed together for the northward, when the Gauntlet, with her screw lifted, was found to make as good way as her full-rigged consorts.
Square-rigged vessel, sir, with a broad spread of white canvas.
We now had nearly two hundred prisoners on board, and thought it prudent to retrace our steps to Port Royal, when on the following morning we fell in with two more schooner-rigged privateers.
The captain says that those ancient fellows put their gold there keep it from the Spaniards, and they must have rigged up this devilish contrivance to work if they found the Spaniards had got on the track of their treasure.
As will be seen later, this was the envelope which was rigged to the original experimental S.
If the car was rigged beneath the centre of the envelope with vertical suspensions it would tend to produce compression in the underside of the envelope, owing to the load not being fully distributed.
Farnborough, was rushed post haste to Kingsnorth, inflated and rigged to the fuselage prepared for it.
In the summer of 1916 one of the Armstrong ships was rigged to an envelope doped black and sent over to France.
In 1913 she was completely re-rigged and exhibited at the Aero Show, but the re-designed rigging revealed various faults and it was not until late in the year that she carried out her flight trials.
This plan was, however, departed from, and the car was subsequentlyrigged to the envelope of the Eta, and a special car was designed and constructed for the original Coastal.
A car 66 feet in length wasrigged beneath the envelope by means of ropes eighteen inches long.
We put provisions on for two days and rigged up a make-shift mast and sail, for we intended to go to sea.
For miles through the park and along the beaches from Ingleside to the sea wall at North Beach the homeless were camped in tents--makeshifts rigged up from a few sticks of wood and a blanket or sheet.
They say that as she walked she careened like a bark-rigged ship before a typhoon.
Here, at the outlet of the Cayuga Creek, on the south shore, they built a small two-masted vessel rigged with equipment which they brought up for the purpose from Cataraqui, in the following year.
They riggedthe thing to deliver electrical current through a series of step-down transformers.
On July 19, Kane telephoned and said the airship was all rigged and ready to go.
No piece of iron was so big or so badly placed that Peroo could not devise a tackle to lift it - a loose-ended, sagging arrangement, riggedwith a scandalous amount of talking, but perfectly equal to the work in hand.
The first vessel was sighted on the larboard bow, and, as the frigate overhauled her, proved to be a full-rigged ship.
Spars were rigged over the stern of the frigate, and some thirty men swung over the seething waters to safety.
Another spar was rigged speedily, and shipped by the active tars, and soon the snowy clouds aloft showed no signs of the wreck.
The long winter had been employed by the belligerents in adding to their fleets; a work completed first by Yeo, who put out upon the lake on the 3d of May, with eight square-rigged vessels, of which two were new frigates.
The Americans had given up their unseaworthy schooners, and had a fleet of eight square-rigged vessels nearly ready, but still lacking the cordage and guns for the three new craft.
Then hooks were rigged over the side to break away the withes, and men slung in ropes alongside vigorously wielded sharp cutlasses and saws; but still the willows retained their grip.
A compass was rigged up on deck, and Captain Hubbell put himself into communication with the electric steersman.
Coaling the Wolf from the Igotz Mendi at once began, and a wireless installation was immediately rigged up by the Germans on the Spanish ship.
There was no place sheltered from the sun in which to sit on the small deck space, and the small awnings which were spasmodically rigged up were quite insufficient for the purpose.
Occasionally a lifeline was rigged along the well deck to the poop quarters, a by no means unnecessary precaution.
Laundry work" was usually done by the prisoners after breakfast, and lines were rigged on any available part of the ship to dry the clothes.
Later on, a small awning was rigged up and we got a little protection, and one or two parasols were forthcoming for the use of the ladies.
She was a sight to be proud of, when, rigged once more, she swung at her anchorage.
My waggon being on the outside, I let the tarpaulin down and slept on the ground instead of on the bunk, rigged up between the spokes of the hind wheels--there was less likelihood of a spear catching me there.
In the morning I found that the Chinaman had obtained an ironbark wooden shutter, and rigged up a figure four trap with bait underneath, and by this means had obtained a wheelbarrow full of dead rats.
It carried Joe back to days, now so far off they seemed, when there had been a heavy fall of snow in England, and he, with friends in the little town, had rigged up a toboggan and had carried it to the hills.
They've rigged up a wall, and any one of us can hop over it in a twinkling.
Give 'em a sight of the dummies we've rigged up," whispered Hank at once.
Our skipper was a man who used his head, and by his instruction the mate had rigged a swinging derrick that discharged our cargo with ease and safety.
When in Natal we had the use of a large ship’s boat belonging to the Company, rigged as a cutter.
Now we were too far north to fetch St. Helena under canvas, for although the ship was brig-rigged and sailed fairly well, it was no use trying conclusions on a wind with the S.
She was a full-rigged vessel of about 800 tons, and was bound for Foo Chow to load tea for home.
In the museum of the Royal United Service Institution is to be seen a fully rigged model of the old Cornwallis.
She was not in good repair and was to be refitted and riggedwith new wire rigging.
I had been on board the Tecumseh and rigged up a makeshift rudder with stream chain, and returned to my own ship to get the towing-gear ready for a start at daylight.
Well, we were rigged up for discovering the north pole, and had alpenstocks to push ourselves up with, and the guides had ropes to pull us up when we got to places where we couldn't climb.
At twenty-three he had held command of a full-rigged ship trading to China.
Collins had rigged an affair of pipes to draw the smoke away, and it was possible, in all but the worst of weather, to keep the bogie-stove alight.
The subject of discussion was a full-rigged ship, standing upright in mid-Pacific, with all her canvas furled; looking as she might be in Queenstown Harbour awaiting orders.
Afterwards we saw a full-rigged ship towing down, and when near we made her out to be the Torreador, ready for sea.
This was rigged to run from the spritsail-yard to an outrigger aft.
In three days' time, a schooner-rigged budgerow was seen coming down the river, which anchored inshore of the Flora, and hailed her for a boat.
But no sooner were the words out of his mouth than a square-rigged vessel was observed doubling St Abb's, which had before concealed her from their view.
He was surprised, too, that the alarm was not echoed by the new bell which had recently been riggedup in the Dower House.
I have spoken of her as a ship, but she was barque-rigged, as almost all whalers are, barques being more easily handled than ship-rigged craft.
He had a supply of mats like those on his bed, and with these he rigged us up a place for sleeping in when it was time to lie down.
We had soon studding-sails rigged below and aloft.
She carried fifty men now, and she sped out of the estuary before the faint breeze with a velocity that spelled certain doom for any square-rigged ship she ever lifted over the horizon.
Even at that distance, and indistinct though it was in the mist, the giant detected the three masts crossed with yards that proclaimed the vessel a full-rigged ship.