studdingsails

Updated: June 13, 2025

By four bells in the first watch the wind had moderated sufficiently to permit of our setting all three royals, as well as the weather topgallant studdingsails; and half-an-hour later we sighted the craft of which we were in pursuit about four points on our starboard-bow.

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