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TOP In square-rigged vessels, a platform at a lowermasthead, usually semicircular in shape. Serves to spread topmast shrouds and as a working floor for crewmembers engaged in rigging repairs, splicing, etc. TOPGALLANT In a square-rigged vessel, the mast, sail, rigging, or yard next above the topmast.
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Chains The place or platform forward from which the lead line is heaved. ... Brig Place for confinement of prisoners; Two master square-rigged vessel.
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delay of vessel's departure or loading with cargo ... lowest sail set on the foremast of square-rigged ship ... platform jutting from ship’s deck for gun or wheel...
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Brig A two-masted vessel, mostly square-rigged, but with a fore-and-aft mainsail. ... Forecastle (fo'c's'l) The raised platform at the bow of a ship, often armored, for musketeers. In some ships it was the location, ergo the name, of the crew's quarters.
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The helmsman is posted on a high platform at the stern and guides the boat with a huge rudder. The goleer stationed at the bow continuously ascertains the depth of the water with a ... When lateen-rigged was classified as a 'caravela latina', when modified as a square-rigged vessel was classified as a 'caravela redonda'.
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I am currently undertaking a private research project to list all the world’s iron, steel and composite square-rigged sailing vessels, both past and present. So far, the list contains over 4300 such vessels.
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Barque: three-masted sailing vessel, square-rigged on mainmast and fore and aft rigged on mizzen ; Barquentine: ... in square-rigged ships, line controlling forward lower corner of sail; ship's coarse in relation to the wind ; Tackle: ropes and blocks ; Top: platform at masthead of ship for sailors to stand upon ;
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On a traditional square rigged ship, the top is the platform at the upper end of each (lower) mast. This is not the masthead "crow's nest" of the popular imagination - above the mainmast (for example) is the main-topmast, main-topgallant-mast and... ... On a sailing vessel, a forestay, sometimes just called a stay,
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