From it the Janus was the chief sufferer, losing her mizzen topmast and foretopgallant mast.
Johnstone then ordered him to come out anyhow, which he did, and his fore topmast shortly went overboard.
The Ajax, arriving later, and probably drawing less attention, had only a topmast shot away.
She has lost her fore topmastand part of her bowsprit.
Many of the sails were in ribbons, and not only the fore topmast but also half a dozen of the spars were gone.
That word was enough to recall all our experiences and dreads of gales, swept decks, topmast carried away, and the hardships of a coast service in the winter.
The outhaul block gave way, and the topmast studding-sail boom bent in a manner which I never before supposed a stick could bend.
The foot of the top-gallant-mast was working between the cross and trussel trees, and the mast lay over at a fearful angle with the topmast below, while everything was working and cracking, strained to the utmost.
The boys of the other watch were in the tops, taking in the top-gallant studding-sails and the lower and topmast studding-sails were coming down by the run.
A light southeaster, to which we could carry a reefed topmast studding-sail, did wonders for our dead reckoning.
For seven days our lower and topmast studding-sails were set all the time, and our royals and top-gallant studding-sails whenever she could stagger under them.
Hardly had they got below, before away went the foretopmast staysail, blown to ribands.
On Monday morning the captain told him to stay the fore topmast plumb.
It was reported of him that once having accompanied the first lieutenant on shore to get a new topmast made, he asked the Portuguese carpenter at the dockyard,--"In how many dayso will you make a new topmasto for mio fregato?
Meantime, Tom and Gerald had been busy in stowing the fore-sail and securing the topmast shrouds and stays.
Her mizen-topmast was gone, her starboard bulwarks forward stove in, one of her boats carried away; besides which she had received other damages.
At fifty past ten, observed the Prince George with her fore topmast gone.
Among their ships we saw also a three-decker, whose main topmast fell by the board.
At thirty-eight past ten he hoisted signal for the commander of the third post to make more sail; observed the Duke's main topmast go over the side.
In reply to this the skipper, who was on deck, requested Kennedy to take the ship's telescope up into the main topmast crosstrees and ascertain what the object really was.
Painting and refitting ship; got off the new fore-topmast from the shore.
Robert was no longer able to trace the human figures on her deck, but the banner of law and right flying from her topmast yet showed in the dusk.
The flag flying so proudly on the topmast of the sloop was gone in the dusk.
He looked toward the little bay, fearing to see the topmast of the schooner showing its tip over the trees, but the sky there, an unbroken blue, was fouled by no such presence.
One end of a heavy cable was fastened to the main-topmast and the other was secured to the top of the cliff.
Here is a tiny steam-tug panting and toiling in front of a majestic three-master with her great black hulk towering out of the water and her masts shooting up until the topmast rigging looks like the delicate web of some Titanic spider.
For some minutes they could do nothing but stare in silence at the few feet of the Nora's topmast which alone remained above water as a sort of tombstone to mark her ocean grave.
The main topmast staysail was run up when the morning watch was called, and dawn found her doing a comfortable nine knots an hour with the situation well in hand.
Light sails of all kinds are unpopular in the South Pacific--one never sees a trading schooner with a topmast on the fore, and not all carry them on the main.
Most of the time the yacht was too close to the wind to admit of the advantageous use of the main topmast staysail, but either our large or small sail of that class, as well as the club and jib topsails, were used whenever opportunity offered.
Mr. Watts respectfully assured him the topmast was strong enough to stand the strain; but the master was set in his own opinion.
In a few minutes the trysails were opened out, the reef points tied, and the sails set, together with the fore topmast staysail.
At 6 it blew so hard, that it was found necessary to strike the topmast and take in a third reef of the mainsail, and under this low canvas we soon reached St Andrew’s Bay, and got again under the lee of the land for the night.
At midnight, the weather was foggy, and the wind blew so fresh that the second reef was taken into the Smeaton’s mainsail, and her topmast was struck.
There was but little change since the previous morning but, looking forward, he saw that the bowsprit was gone, and the fore-topmast had been carried away.
There is no doubt that getting rid of the leverage of the bowsprit, right up in her eyes, eased her a good bit; and as the topmast was a pretty heavy spar, too, that also helped.
Yes, the bowsprit went with the strain when she rose, having buried herself halfway up the waist; and the topmast snapped like a carrot, a moment later.
A part of the cargo had to be discharged, here; and the captain at once went ashore, to get a spar to replace the topmast carried away in the gale.
Sail trimmers aloft, and get ready the topmast and top-gallant studding-sails.
I got to the topmast cross-trees, I had actually forgiven him.
And she's gane down, and farther down, The bride's ship to behold; And the topmast and the mainmast They shone just like the gold.
And she gaed down, and farther down, Her love's ship for to see; And the topmast and the mainmast Shone like the silver free.
At the same time Mr Armitage, our third lieutenant, proceeded aloft to the main topmast crosstrees with his telescope to maintain a vigilant watch upon the motions of the approaching vessel.
Her bowsprit had a gentle downward curve, her mast was a beautiful spar, and her topmast was elegantly tapered and set up in good shape.
On the sixteenth day of June, 1703, a boy on the topmast discovered land.
Over the side went the topmast and topsail, down came the mainsail, and the vessel's head paying off, in five minutes she was hard and fast on a reef.
Sambo, as a large ball of fire struck the main-topmast head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "topmast" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
