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  • Thumbnail for Sail plan
    square-rigged foremast and fore-and aft mizzen Barque with two square-rigged masts and a fore-and-aft mizzen Barquentine with one square-rigged mast and...
    8 KB (861 words) - 01:11, 25 September 2023
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    to the square sails. It was not unknown for cutters to use a removable mizzen mast for use when reaching, setting a lugsail. Since the boom of the mainsail...
    21 KB (3,013 words) - 20:55, 31 October 2023
  • killed and buried at sea in chapter six of the preceding book: Blue at the Mizzen) informs Maturin of a rumpus in the town: a fight between Protestant mariners...
    22 KB (3,038 words) - 01:58, 23 April 2024
  • plots of Master and Commander, The Reverse of the Medal and Blue at the Mizzen, are directly based on the chequered career of Thomas Cochrane. Often in...
    26 KB (3,238 words) - 02:35, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for São Martinho (1580)
    Greenwich, São Martinho had three masts, two square-rigged masts and a lateen mizzen-mast. She was shown with a stern gallery and with the long beakhead characteristic...
    4 KB (433 words) - 13:15, 12 August 2023
  • 0 m2) Other sails genoa: 301 sq ft (28.0 m2) storm jib: 15 sq ft (1.4 m2) Mizzen: 70 sq ft (6.5 m2) Mizzen staysail: 135 sq ft (12.5 m2) Upwind sail area...
    11 KB (805 words) - 22:33, 6 January 2024
  • 279 sq ft (25.9 m2) Jib/genoa area 495 sq ft (46.0 m2) Other sails mizzen: 95 sq ft (8.8 m2) storm jib: 108 sq ft (10.0 m2) Upwind sail area 869 sq ft (80.7 m2)...
    9 KB (593 words) - 19:41, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Trinidad (ship)
    or 110 tonels with square sails on the fore and main masts and a lateen mizzen. Its original crew was 61. After Magellan's death and the burning of the...
    8 KB (742 words) - 21:30, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for French ship Redoutable (1795)
    flagship, the frigate Résolue, dismasting her of her bowsprit, foremast, and mizzen; only her mainmast stayed upright. the 74-gun Pégase took Résolue in tow...
    20 KB (2,226 words) - 16:16, 26 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Vasa (ship)
    in modern times. The mizzen mast consisted of only two sections, a mizzen which stepped on the upper gundeck followed by a mizzen topmast. The bowsprit...
    85 KB (11,665 words) - 07:09, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas W. Lawson (ship)
    changed then to: 'fore, main, mizzen, spanker, jigger, driver, and pusher' at launch and to: 'forecastle, fore, main, mizzen, jigger, and spanker' after...
    22 KB (2,210 words) - 12:11, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mayflower II
    25 ft (7.6 m) wide, 236 tons displacement, three masts (mainmast, foremast, mizzen), a bowsprit and 6 sails. The ship is seaworthy and sailed to Providence...
    14 KB (1,452 words) - 14:20, 7 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rescue of the Renown
    1887, the Renown sank during a storm in the North Sea off Den Helder in the Netherlands. The survivors climbed up the mizzen-mast and were eventually rescued...
    4 KB (274 words) - 03:09, 11 April 2024
  • changing tack. mizzen 1.  A mizzen sail is a small sail (triangular or gaff) on a ketch or yawl set abaft the mizzenmast. 2.  A mizzen staysail is an...
    251 KB (31,543 words) - 14:18, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Northern Belle
    sea occasionally breaking completely over her. The storm was so ferocious that the main and mizzen masts were cut away by the crew at 6.30am. The Margate...
    14 KB (1,314 words) - 20:29, 16 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Spanish ship Neptuno (1795)
    HMS Spartiate. Neptuno fought both of them for the next hour, having her mizzen mast shot away, and her rigging badly damaged. Valdés, who had already been...
    21 KB (2,443 words) - 04:06, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pamir (ship)
    sank, she still had set about a third of the mizzen sail and some tarpaulin in the shrouds of the mizzen mast. The boat that Haselbach reached was badly...
    28 KB (3,219 words) - 00:51, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sloop-of-war
    two-masted vessels, usually carrying a ketch or a snow rig. A ketch had main and mizzen masts but no foremast. A snow had a foremast and a main mast immediately...
    19 KB (2,630 words) - 06:09, 30 December 2023
  • dipping lug on the foremast and a standing lug on the mizzen. lying ahull Waiting out a storm by dousing all sails and simply letting the boat drift...
    306 KB (38,471 words) - 11:10, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sevenstones Lightship
    the lightship's bumpkin carrying away her[clarification needed] main and mizzen halyards, and the starboard light. Built by William Pitcher of Thames Ironworks...
    20 KB (2,368 words) - 10:46, 5 October 2023
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