How To Use topgallant sail In A Sentence
- In the afternoon set the fore and main topgallant sails. 1pm set the mizzen topgallant sail and spanker.
- Sometimes additional pieces of wood were fastened to the topmasts, which carried topgallant sails.
- About midnight we lost the main topgallant sail, which is the next to the highest of five sails on the mainmast.
- By the end of the reign of the carrack, a third sail, the topgallant sail had appeared in some ships above the topsail in its topgallant mast.
- Several of the hands, including Foucault and Parratt, had followed, and all looked up; and there they saw the body of Nilsson, hanging on the front of the fore-topgallant sail. John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman
- Above the upper topsails are the topgallant sails and above these, the royals and the skysails.
- She had a full set of sails including double topsails, single topgallant sails and nothing above the royal yards.
- On the topgallant mast is the topgallant sail, on big vessels divided into two sails, like the topsail.
- Another struck the ship's beakhead, whistling a shred of wood high into the air, then a tearing, ripping, rustling sound made Sharpe look up to see that the Pucelle's main topgallant mast, the slenderest and highest portion of the mainmast, was falling to bring down a tangle of rigging and the main topgallant sail with it. Sharpe's Trafalgar
- Her fore and mizen topgallant masts had been carried away, the topgallant sails hung before the topsails, with the main topgallant masts standing, and all her sails set.
