| About midnight we lost the main topgallant sail, which is the next to the highest of five sails on the mainmast. |
| The fourth member of the party, melick, was seated near the mainmast, folding some papers in a peculiar way. |
| Her mainmast is 29 metres high, and she has a permanent crew of 16, assisted by 36 voyage crew and various supernumeraries. |
| Such ships had stout hulls and caught the wind with a huge square sail on a stubby mainmast. |
| The vessel was rigged with a steel mainmast and cargo boom, fitted with hydraulic lifting and vanging winches. |
| The third hit the base of the mainmast, causing a fire in the 4in ready-use ammunition lockers. |
