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it (in which case it would be called a fore-and-aft rig or a fore-and-aft rigged sail) ; a square rigged topsail is nearly always trapezoidal in shape...9 KB (1,218 words) - 01:26, 18 July 2023
Schooner (redirect from Topsail schooner)being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schooner also has a square topsail on the foremast, to which may be added a topgallant. Differing...12 KB (1,372 words) - 21:20, 11 September 2024- families. The Topsails takes its name from the surrounding landscape which includes Main Topsail, Mizzen Topsail, Gaff Topsail and Fore Topsail which are...2 KB (186 words) - 03:02, 7 May 2021
A fore-and-aft rig is a sailing vessel rig with sails set mainly along the line of the keel, rather than perpendicular to it as on a square rigged vessel...5 KB (484 words) - 03:11, 16 June 2024
square-rigged sails including a crossjack, topsail, save-all topsail, and top gallant sail, as well as a gaff-rigged topsail on the main mast and a jib and flying...5 KB (553 words) - 21:20, 2 April 2024
Chesapeake suffered heavily in the exchange of gunfire, having her wheel and fore topsail halyard shot away, rendering her unmanoeuvrable. Lawrence himself was...49 KB (6,606 words) - 16:04, 2 June 2024
celebrations which HMS Victory was centre stage for the event. Victory's fore topsail was severely damaged during the Battle of Trafalgar, perforated by upwards...66 KB (6,772 words) - 01:07, 4 September 2024
mizzen topsail (and therefore that its mizzen mast has a topsail yard and a cross-jack yard) whereas the mizzen mast of a barque has only fore-and-aft...8 KB (995 words) - 22:47, 26 April 2024- temporary exhibition spaces. It also houses the Trafalgar Sail (the fore topsail of HMS Victory, said to be the largest surviving single original artefact...5 KB (557 words) - 14:37, 25 October 2023
stood the strain. We lost two brand new topgallant sails and one lower fore topsail. A tremendous sea was running and needs must we carry on or be pooped...71 KB (8,444 words) - 18:32, 2 September 2024
Like many of those schooners, she carries a raffee, a square-rigged fore topsail which is triangular in shape. In designing the Denis Sullivan, architects...7 KB (546 words) - 06:20, 30 September 2023
(15 m) waves. Orders were given to drop the fore topsail and release sheets (ropes) holding both topsails angled into the wind. Before the captain's order...28 KB (3,261 words) - 21:52, 10 September 2024
Sail plan (section Fore-and-aft rig)sails (from bottom to top): (fore, main, mizzen) ...sail, lower topsail, upper topsail, topgallant, royal, skysail. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries...8 KB (861 words) - 01:11, 25 September 2023
until 5 pm, when a "hurricane" commenced with the brig under reefing fore-topsail and mainsail. The captain "scudded" the vessel, putting her before the...21 KB (2,822 words) - 18:21, 20 April 2024- John F. Fardy and Brother for a total cost of US$165,000. She was a fore topsail schooner and had steam propulsion by way of one double oscillating cylinder...7 KB (585 words) - 00:59, 25 May 2024
she was attacked by Sv. Andrei Pervozvannyi, which brought down her fore topsail, then by Sv. Georgii Pobyedonosets, Preobrazhenie Gospodne and others...9 KB (893 words) - 16:27, 10 August 2024
spritsail topsail, fore course, fore topsail & fore topgallant, main course, main topsail and main topgallant, Lateen mizzen with square topsail. Complement...15 KB (1,585 words) - 11:41, 3 August 2024
clewed down, and hauled out the reef-tackles again, and close-reefed the fore-topsail, and furled the main, and hove her to on the starboard tack. Here was...50 KB (6,443 words) - 05:17, 15 August 2024
Mast (sailing) (redirect from Fore-mast)furthest afore, it may be rigged to the bowsprit. Sections: fore-mast lower, fore topmast, fore topgallant mast Main-mast: the tallest mast, usually located...21 KB (2,602 words) - 10:27, 1 August 2024
Yard (sailing) (section Fore and aft yards)modern materials such as aluminium or carbon fibre. Although some types of fore and aft rigs have yards, the term is usually used to describe the horizontal...12 KB (1,534 words) - 21:52, 17 May 2024
- the lip Thinking how each clout heard The boatswain pipe: "Hoist the fore topsail, Lads! Haul home! Haul home!" And then it soars and spreads Like pinion
- of the sail). Gaff-rigged vessels may also have another sail, called a topsail, above the gaff. Lateen sloops have triangular sails with the upper edge