The largest masts for fine weather are respectively 36 feet and 22 feet, long.
For some years, the giant steel masts erected by the Company in the southwestern part of the city have puzzled the passer-by.
The seven masts were to cost seven thousand dollars a year, or somewhat more than was then being paid for gas.
Her masts went by the board, but we had passed in a moment from a raging sea into smooth water.
Captain Blake, who commanded her, achieved the feat of rigging jury masts with his crew, and carrying the vessel to the Philadelphia navy yard for repairs.
Glasses were turned on the stranger, which proved on closer scrutiny to be "a heavy-looking ship, without any top-gallant masts up.
Before we had cleared her, her fore and maintop masts fell over the side, and she was silenced for a while, but it was only till we had passed her.
Fowler also occupied time in constructing a raft from the timbers, masts and yards of the Porpoise.
She lay there on the sleeping ocean like a dream ship, her masts and rigging black against the pallid sky, the mist that rested upon the sea enfolding half her hull.
Going before the wind, the old brig rolled terribly at times--so much so that we often expected the masts to be snapped off, on account of the sudden jerking from side to side.
The ship had lost all her masts close to deck, was almost on her beam ends, and rolling like a log in the water.
She had no masts or rigging, the crew having nothing more to do with the seamanship.
In an old print I see a thicket of mastson the river.
As ships that brave Great storms at sea on masts a flaming coal From heaven catch, bear on, so man was wreathed Somewhere with lightning and became a soul.
Here and there, too, the masts of tall ships rise, as more gravely they seek their port, or win their way to the yet distant ocean, performing a voyage before they reach the sea.
This signal was to be clicked out on the transmitting instruments near Poldhu, Cornwall, the southwestern tip of England, and radiated from a number of aerial wires pendent from masts 210 feet high.
Venetian masts had not been hoisted then in England, but "rows of national flags and heraldic banners were stretched across the Strand at several points, and busts and portraits of her Majesty were placed in conspicuous positions.
They hadna sailed a league on sea, A league but barely ane, Till anchors brak, and tap-masts lap; There came a deadly storm.
O let us build a bonny ship, And set her in the sea; The sails shall be of silken twine, The masts of rowon-tree.
He was climbing when the sea struck, and the shock of its onslaught hove the Alameda down until her masts were level with the water.
The glum looks were replaced by grins and appreciative smiles, and under the direction of Martin, now acting as mate, the men set to work getting the royal yards off the skids and up aloft on the masts where they belonged.
There was a light breeze and enough swell to cause the masts to sway in an arc of ten degrees.
Ware mean Scotch barques with ornamental donkey-boilers and four heavily-sparred masts and eight able seamen's bunks forever empty in the fo'c'sles.
The masts and yards were of wood and scraped and greased.
The party sat on a seat by a river-side path until Donald, who had been scanning the roily windings of the Clyde citywards, discerned three tall masts coming slowly around a bend.
On these occasions, he twirled the wheel himself and seemed to take a savage pleasure in hounding the schooner along, and several times he had her with half the deck under lee water and threatening to jump the masts over the side.
It's a wonder tae me ye didny jump th' masts oot of her.
Almost simultaneously from the three masts came the shout, "All gone, sir.
I'll trim him or jump the mastsout of this one, by Jupiter!
And he was the more afraid, when he saw lying among the ice pack the wrecks of many a gallant ship; some with masts and yards all standing, some with the seamen frozen fast on board.
Her funnel and her masts were overboard, and swayed and surged under her lee; her decks were swept as clean as a barn floor, and there was no living soul on board.
Her masts and spars were lying in all directions on the beach, which was strewed with her cargo.
The fore and main-masts still stood, supporting the weight of rigging and wreck which hung to them, and which, like a powerful lever, pressed the labouring ship down on her side.
The other vessel lay a wreck, with her masts gone, and as it were in terrorem, staring us in the face.
Over this rose three white tiers of passenger decks, pierced by innumerable bright points, with larger lights in constellations outside, while masts and funnels ran up, faintly indicated, into the gloom above.
Presently Jake stood up on deck, and watched the masts that rose above the fringe of trees.
The cables we proposed floating by means of the two hand-masts and some empty casks lashed to them as buoys, with the intention of thus making them receive the pressure of the ice a foot or two below the surface of the water.
They came back on the other tack, making almost nothing, and the Siwash pulled the masts down before one of them spoke to Mr. Oliver.
Then her bows fell off a little farther, the trailing gaff swung out with a bang, and Frank saw the masts fall into line with him and a bent figure behind the deckhouse struggling with the wheel.
As the light breeze took her sails she came faster, sitting the water like a duck, her lofty masts tapering away to the sky as they broke through the white clouds of canvas.
Through the galley and round the masts with the avenging mops in mad pursuit, until breathless and exhausted he suddenly sprang on to the side and climbed frantically into the rigging.
Don't you give me none of your lies," said the lady, as she scanned both masts closely.
The distance between us and the steamer had not diminished, so that its masts and a funnel arose above the horizon, two narrow, somewhat slanting lines, between which there was a thicker dark spot.
Already the typical masts of the British destroyers and trawlers arose above the horizon.
Then there were steeples, towers, belfries, shining vanes, and masts of ships; a very forest.
His compass was broken, his chart destroyed, his chronometer had stopped, his masts were gone by the board; his anchor was adrift, ten thousand leagues away.
He feared New Hampshire would be lost, and with it the supply of masts for the royal navy.
On the 21st of June the masts of the advanced ships of the English were first seen, and one of the fire-ships was ineffectually sent against them.
She was a hopeless wreck, for both her masts had been snapped off short by the shot, and the yards to which the sails had been attached were lying athwart the deck.
There was a deep flapping sound, and a rattling of blocks, as the sails bellied out for a moment, and then fell against the masts again.
The masts and rigging were to be carefully looked to, and every defect repaired.
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