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Mainmast Peak is a 2,863-metre (9,393-foot)
mountain summit in
British Columbia, Canada.
Mainmast Peak is
located in the
Battle Range of the
Selkirk Mountains...
- barc, or bark is a type of
sailing vessel with
three or more
masts and
mainmasts rigged square and only the
mizzen (the
aftmost mast)
rigged fore and aft...
- and had a gaff-rigged
mainsail with
square rig
above it on the
mainmast. The
mainmast of a
brigantine is the aft one. By the
first half of the 18th century...
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ketch is a two-masted
sailboat whose mainmast is
taller than the
mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and
whose mizzen mast is
stepped forward of the
rudder post...
- in a brig, the
forward mast is the
foremast and the
after mast is the
mainmast. In a
schooner with two masts, even if the
masts are of the same height...
- ship, or
further back from a location, e.g. "the
mizzenmast is
abaft the
mainmast". Aboard: onto or
within a ship, or in a group. Above: a
higher deck of...
- of a two-masted schooner, the
foremast generally being shorter than the
mainmast. A
common variant, the
topsail schooner also has a
square topsail on the...
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throughout her
first expedition. She was
rigged as a
barque (the fore- and
mainmasts being square rig and the
mizzen mast
carrying a fore-aft sail), and the...
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Dialect Society Giles Milton,
White Gold (2004), p. 9: "The
flags on
their mainmasts depicted a
human skull on a dark
green background - the
menacing symbol...
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towards the bow of the ship, a
mainmast near the
middle and a
mizzen mast
towards the aft of the ship. The fore- and
mainmasts were
built in
three sections:...
