From the deck to the truck of the maintopmast is something over a hundred feet, while the foremast with its topmast is eight or ten feet shorter. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In less than an hour I had the maintopmast on deck and was constructing the shears. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The maintopmast was over thirty feet in length, the foretopmast nearly thirty, and it was of these that ❋ Unknown (2010)
On deck all hell broke loose as they were striking the maintopmast half an hour later; the preventer top-rope reeved through the fid-hole parted at the very moment a deluge of warm rain beat down on the ship, so thick they could scarcely breathe, much less see. ❋ Bruce Schauble (2006)
Looking up in the darkness he could just make out that the brig was hove-to under the maintopmast staysail, of which only a corner was showing. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1958)
After hearing guns on shore, and seeing rockets thrown up, the night remarkably dark, could just carry single reefed topsails, top-gallant sails, gib, and maintopmast staysails. ❋ James Harrison (N/A)
But to balance this success we had the misfortune to find that the Trial had sprung her mainmast, and that her maintopmast had come by the board; and as we were all of us standing to the eastward the next morning, with ❋ Richard Walter (N/A)
The _Frolic_, on the night of the 17th of October, had been overtaken by a most violent gale of wind, in which she carried away her mainyard, lost her topsails, and sprung her maintopmast. ❋ Charles Roger (N/A)
Thus we have foretopmast, maintopmast and mizzentopmast, and over them foretopgallantmast, maintopgallantmast and mizzentopgallantmast. ❋ Various (N/A)
Her starboard bow had been cut right through up to the head of the foremast, which had been carried away completely, with all its spars and rigging, as well as the bowsprit and maintopmast. ❋ John B. [Illustrator] Greene (N/A)
At four A.M. I was relieved by Thomson, who at daylight apprized me that the maintopmast was sprung, and that the gale was increasing. ❋ Various (N/A)
Her foretopmast and maintopmast had gone, and her mainmast was so badly damaged as to be dangerous. ❋ Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 (1914)
There was a splintering crash overhead followed by a sough and a thud as the maintopmast came hurtling to the deck and in its fall stretched a couple of men in death. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
The maintopmast was over thirty feet in length, the foretopmast nearly thirty, and it was of these that I intended making the shears. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Barquentine -- up to the truck of her maintopmast, where a gull had perched itself and stood with tail pointing like a vane. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
And it seemed to the boy that, as she ceased, a star dropped out of the sky and poised itself above the fir-tree on her maintopmast; and that the bare mast beneath it put forth branches, while upon every branch, as it spread, a globe of fire dropped from the star, until a gigantic ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
