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- yard, extending from the slings to the ****ings for the lifts and braces. Yardarms The outermost tips of the yard: outboard from the attachments for the lifts...
- spars are called yards and their tips, outside the lifts, are called the yardarms. A ship mainly rigged so is called a square-rigger. In "Jackspeak" (Royal...
- flown on a yardarm over every park in New York City, alongside the city flag and beneath the flag of the United States of America. These yardarms were controversial...
- was the pirate with most captures during the Golden Age of Piracy. He is now known for hanging the governor of Martinique from the yardarm of his ship....
- fleet at the Battle of Ponta Delgada, captured enemies were hanged from yardarms, as they were considered pirates by Philip II. Opponents receiving the...
- via the yardarms through the wind as controlled by the vessel's running rigging, using braces—adjusting the fore and aft angle of each yardarm around the...
- converted into a fish factory ship. In 1985, Yardarm Knot Inc. was incorporated to acquire M/V Yardarm Knot, which had been sitting idle in Lake Washington...
- barry way of the last and Azure thereon three Ships each with one mast and yardarm the sail furled also Sable. Supporters On either side a Sea Horse the upper...
- standing rigging, the main topgallant mast, the topsail yardarms on the foremast and the spritsail yardarms had all been shot away, and considerable damage had...
- Stubb and Flask later kill a right whale whose head is fastened to a yardarm opposite the sperm whale's head. Ishmael compares the two heads in a philosophical...