lower-mastheads

Updated: April 30, 2025

For there, sweeping down upon us with deadly implacability, towered a perfect mountain of a sea, its front almost as steep as the side of a house, and its foaming, hissing crest reared threateningly aloft as high as our lower-mastheads had they been standing.

Harry Collingwood - A Middy of the King: A Romance of the Old British Navy