The sailors at the fore and mizzen had come down; the line tubs were fixed in their places; the cranes were thrust out; the
mainyard was backed, and the three boats swung over the sea like three samphire baskets over high cliffs.
"Now, men, we'll go aft and square the
mainyard. That's about all we can do for the ship; and for the rest she must take her chance."
It made its way into the cabin, into the forecastle; it poisoned the sheltered places on the deck, it could be sniffed as high as the
mainyard. It was clear that if the smoke came out the air came in.
We also ate some ox hides that covered the top of the
mainyard to prevent the yard from chafing the shrouds, and which had become exceedingly hard because of the sun, rain and wind.
He breaks free from the fetters of a destructive teleology and encourages his men to explore the possibilities of an open time: "Now, men, we'll go aft and square the
mainyard. That's about all we can do for the ship; and for the rest she must take her chance" (162).
Named after an island - Kiltan - in the Lakshwadeep archipelago of India, the ASW Corvette was launched by Chitra Joshi from GRSE
mainyard in the presence of Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral DK Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director, GRSE, Rear Admiral (Retd) A K Verma and other officials from the Ministry of Defence, Armed Forces and West Bengal administration.
The Macedonian lost her mizzenmast, fore & maintopmasts and
mainyard & was much cut up in her hull The damage Sustained by this Ship was not such as to render her return into port necessary, and had I not deemed it important that we should See our prize [in?] should have continued our cruise.
In "The Secret Sharer" the narrator/captain near a looming cliff in the dark "swung the
mainyard and waited hopelessly." Our author says of this: