low-masts

Updated: June 26, 2025

And yet, in all this great run, which had been made in all latitudes between 9° and 71, we sprung neither low-masts, top-mast, lower, nor top-sail yard, nor so much as broke a lower or top-mast shroud; which, with the great care and abilities of my officers, must be owing to the good properties of our ship.

James Cook - A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2