Exempel på mainmast

• No distress message could be sent because the mainmast fell in the explosion, destroying the antennae.

• With the sun shining on them, the insects became more active, and climbed the mainmast.

• Norfolk Island was known to possess tall pines suitable for ships' mainmasts and spars.

• The stay that supports the main mast is called the mainstay. It is crucial to the ship's survival and in each ship there is only one.

• Between the foremast and mainmast, a new deckhouse was constructed consisting of the galley and a well-fitted-out laboratory.

• His ship was heavily battered in the exchange, with the main topgallantmast knocked down and the mainmast and hull severely damaged.

• Her three-sectioned mainmast rose from deck to truck.

• Her mast rigging was blown down and her mainmast had to be lowered for safety.

• Besides the weight, the mainmast was considered to be of limited value.

• To save 50 tons of topweight, the mainmast was suppressed.

• She is now permanently spritsail rigged, and has a mainmast and topmast that, together, are about 90 feet high, and a mizzen mast.

• Two gunpowder-propelled catapults were located on the beam abaft the mainmast.

• The distinguishing characteristic of a ketch is that the forward of the two masts (the mainmast) is larger than the after mast (the mizzen).

• The ship is 106ft m long by 25ft m wide, 236 tons displacement, 4 masts (mainmast, foremast, mizzen, sprit), and 6 sails.

• We could see them up on the mainmast.

• The mainmast was lateen-rigged with a trapezoidal mainsail, but the foremast carried the conventional square course and square topsail.

• A platform for another director was added on the mainmast which was converted into a tripod to handle the additional weight.

• A mainmast added ahead of the aft funnel was still affected by the plume of the fore funnel and was not considered a success.

• Both the ketch and the yawl differ from the two-masted schooner, whose aft mainmast is taller than the foremast.