She had Dutch colours painted on her sides in four different places, and also carried a rigid painted ensign at the fore-masthead, a painted rigid house flag at the
mainmast, and port of registry on her side.
At the time I was working forward at the foot of
mainmast and glanced up as I felt our speed gather under the 50-foot swell and then stared in abject fear as the mizzen mast began moving across my position as we started to broach.
The crew then cut down their
mainmast - hoping it would fall straight on to the rocky shore and provide them with an escape route - but it crashed uselessly into the sea beside them.
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His shimmy up his ship's
mainmast to 'nail the colours' on would have been stopped unless he was wearing a high res jacket, harness, goggles and wielding a cold temperature glue gun.
So it was that on a gusty, damp day in October, eight of them took ship from Rotherhithe on the afternoon tide and squashed themselves and their gear into two tiny cabins aft of the
mainmast. The forecast was not good, and by the time they reached the open sea it was grey and choppy with a nasty groundswell.
The oldest son of Austria-Hungary''s last emperor and longtime head of one of Europe''s most influential families died last week at the age of 98 ENGLAND Rope access worker Jay Redman-Stainer climbs the
mainmast of Admiral Lord Nelson''s flagship, HMS Victory, at the Royal Navy Dockyard in Portsmouth, during her most extensive restoration since she was repaired following the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805
After only eight minutes of engaging Bismarck the Hood was hit by the
mainmast and a massive column of flame erupted from the middle of the ship followed by a huge explosion.
When Columbus set sail in 1492, his own flagship was shorter than Zheng's
mainmast and barely twice as long as the big man's rudder.
Why go to the trouble and expense of marlin fishing with a winch strapped onto a
mainmast when you can get the same feeling by downsizing your tackle and battling feisty panfish?