- On a
square rigged sailing vessel, a
topgallant sail (topgallant
alone pronounced "t'gallant",
topgallant sail
pronounced "t'garns'l", is the square-rigged...
-
ships commissioned in the
Royal Navy fly a long
streamer from the
maintopgallant masthead. This,
which is
called a pennant, is the sign of command, and...
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earliest times,
prior to 1653 at the yardarm, but
since then at the
maintopgallant masthead.
Today the
pennant is
hoisted on the day a
warship or establishment...
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almost capsized before the crew got
control of the ship,
losing the
maintopgallant mast in the process.
Roberts then sent a
party of
seamen as**** with...
- 28, 1889, for New York. Two days
later on
October 30, she lost her
maintopgallant and head
sails in a
typhoon and ran
aground off the
coast of Shariki...
