royal-mast-heads

Updated: May 3, 2025

The mate then hailed the yards "All ready forward?" "All ready the cross-jack yards?" etc., etc., and "Aye, aye, sir!" being returned from each, the word was given to let go; and in the twinkling of an eye, the ship, which had shown nothing but her bare yards, was covered with her loose canvas, from the royal-mast-heads to the decks.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast

To the left of them again, or about north-west from me, lay Banana Creek, its entrance about eleven miles distant, and over the intervening tree-tops on Boolambemba Island I could, so clear was the atmosphere just then, distinctly make out the royal-mast-heads of the Daphne and the American barque; I could even occasionally detect the gleam of the sloop's pennant as it waved idly in the sluggish breeze.

Harry Collingwood - The Congo Rovers: A Story of the Slave Squadron

The mate then hailed the yards, ``All ready forward? ``All ready the cross-jack yards? &c., &c.; and ``Aye, aye, sir! being returned from each, the word was given to let go; and, in the twinkling of an eye, the ship, which had shown nothing but her bare yards, was covered with her loose canvas, from the royal-mast-heads to the decks.

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast