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  • Thumbnail for Deck (ship)
    in launch and recovery of equipment. Topgallant forecastle deck: Any raised deck occurring above the forecastle deck (see above). Tween deck: the storage...
    22 KB (2,851 words) - 17:48, 28 October 2024
  • 1864, he manned an artillery gun on the topgallant forecastle (a deck at the top of the ship's forecastle). When Richmond became engaged with the CSS Tennessee...
    3 KB (238 words) - 13:49, 28 October 2021
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    Flying Dutchman fell from the foretopmast crosstrees on to the topgallant forecastle and was smashed to atoms. Nicholas Monsarrat, the novelist who wrote...
    38 KB (4,953 words) - 04:19, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bonne Citoyenne-class corvette
    Hasan. All members of the class were flush-decked, but with a long topgallant forecastle. The corvettes were launched between 1794 and 1796, and the Royal...
    3 KB (223 words) - 14:02, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS General Pike
    since replaced. Two of these guns were mounted on pivots on the topgallant forecastle (a platform above the forward gun deck) and the poop deck, and could...
    8 KB (944 words) - 14:56, 17 October 2024
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    advantage of providing four chase guns between the poop deck and the topgallant forecastle. The ship had a complement of 232 officers and ratings. Laid down...
    13 KB (1,320 words) - 20:51, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Patrick Henry (packet)
    her, has a poop deck (under which is the range of cabins), and a topgallant forecastle, but without a spar deck, the main deck being open, and running...
    74 KB (10,402 words) - 00:30, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for USCGC White Sage
    handle buoys and anchors. There was a weather deck broken by a topgallant forecastle raised about 4’-ft. above the main deck. The open foredeck was surrounded...
    13 KB (1,368 words) - 07:16, 24 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: Q–S
    Bay, Alabama Aug 5, 1864 As captain of a 100-pounder rifle gun on topgallant forecastle on board USS Richmond during action against rebel forts and gunboats...
    122 KB (363 words) - 21:20, 29 October 2023
  • Haran. All members of the class were flush-decked, but with a long topgallant forecastle. Perçante was stationed at Bayonne and Rochefort. Initially she...
    17 KB (2,128 words) - 04:38, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hendrick Sharp
    Honor citation reads: As captain of a 100-pounder rifle gun on topgallant forecastle on board the U.S.S. Richmond during action against rebel forts and...
    4 KB (370 words) - 18:00, 4 April 2024
  • Captain Henry H. Bell, for "gallantly working the rifle on the topgallant forecastle." He then served on the sloop Cyane in the Pacific Squadron in 1863...
    16 KB (2,099 words) - 22:16, 14 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Simoom (1849)
    result has removed that doubt. The Simoom will now be fitted with a topgallant forecastle and a poop, and otherwise adapted for a troop ship, for the duties...
    8 KB (850 words) - 19:02, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Accrington (1910)
    Accrington was a steel, one deck type with poop, long bridge and topgallant forecastle with accommodation for first, second and third class passengers...
    5 KB (333 words) - 06:44, 13 July 2024
  • Germany. She had a long poop deck, a long bridge house, and a long topgallant forecastle. The bridge house was fitted up for the accommodation of thirty...
    5 KB (312 words) - 06:45, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Preussen (ship)
    seriously damaged and lost much of her forward rigging (bowsprit, fore topgallant mast), making it impossible to steer the ship to safety. Brighton returned...
    18 KB (1,820 words) - 07:46, 15 July 2024
  • the Shields Daily Gazette of 12 July 1884 as constructed with a topgallant forecastle fitted for the crew, long bridge house extending over the engine...
    4 KB (262 words) - 02:27, 13 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Maori (1893)
    frozen meat trade and had poop deck, long bridge house and long topgallant forecastle. Maori had her machinery situated amidships and had her hold subdivided...
    10 KB (1,041 words) - 09:12, 9 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for James Baines (clipper)
    a topgallant forecastle provided the accommodations for three classes of passengers and the 100 men crew whose bunks were built in the forecastle and...
    14 KB (1,455 words) - 18:35, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Sovereign of the Seas
    was the first ship in history that flew royals above her topgallant sails and a topgallant sail on the jigger-mast. Sovereign became leaky and defective...
    19 KB (2,267 words) - 21:09, 6 May 2024
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