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	Definition of foremast - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	Rigging of American Sailing Vessels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The hermaphrodite brig is a vessel whose foremast is identical to the full rigged brig and brigantine and whose mainmast is that of a schooner; the mainmast is made in two spars and carries no yards.
		The bark is a three-masted vessel with the foremast and mainmast square rigged and the mizzenmast fore-and-aft rigged.
		The foremast is made in three spars in square rigging, but the main- and mizzenmast carry hoist-and-lower mainsails and gaff topsails of the schooner type.
	www.pem.org /archives/guides/rigs.htm (469 words)

	Full rigged ship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		If all seven sails are present on the foremast, the fourth sail from the deck on the foremast would (just as an example) be called the fore lower topgallant sail.
		Jibs are carried from the foremast, and have varying naming conventions.
		Staysails may be carried between any other mast and the one in front of it or from the foremast to the bowsprit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Full_rigged_ship (474 words)

	Vessel Types on the Great Lakes
		Brigs/brigantines are two-masted vessels with square sails on the foremast and a gaf sail with a boom on the mainmast.
		Barkentines are three-masted vessels with square sails on the foremast and gaff sails on the main mast and the mizzen mast.
		The foremast sails usually consisted of a square foresail, topsail, topgallant sail, and one royal.
	www.mnhs.org /places/nationalregister/shipwrecks/mpdf/craft.html (1403 words)

	Early American Sailing Ships
		The mainmast and the mizzenmast are fore and aft rigged.
		The foremast and rigging is the same as the mainmast of a brigantine.
		Another combination is to use the foremast of a brig (yards) and the mainmast (fore and aft) of a schooner.
	www.keyshistory.org /ASS-Amer-Sail-Ships.html (470 words)

	the Models
		The model shows her as she was in 1957 when she capsized and sank in the Atlantic.The model is able to be sailed using radio control in wind up to force 4(11-17mph).
		The radio control functions are: rudder, foremast yard braces, main and mizzen braces and spanker boom, pulling over the jibs, an auxiliary motor is used.
		The radio control functions are: rudder, foremast yard braces, main-and mizzen braces, and moving the jibs to the other side.
	home.foni.net /~agondesen/models.htm (190 words)

	Search Results for foremast - Encyclopædia Britannica
		in sailing ships, triangular sail rigged to a stay extending from the foremast, or foretopmast, to the bowsprit or to a spar, the jibboom, that is an extension of the bowsprit.
		To the foremast there may also be rigged one or more square topsails or, more commonly, one or more jib sails or Bermuda sails...
		An Egyptian temple decoration dating from about 1600 BC shows a ship on which a member of the crew is measuring the depth of the water with a long pole.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=foremast&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (259 words)

	Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board: Titanic's Cargo Gear
		The use of the foremast stay to supply a cargo working node seems problematic to me. Firstly, the foremast is not a samson post; secondly, the arrangement would be very unstable, particularly when the lateral component of force is at its greatest.
		Since there were no crutches on the deck forward of the foremast, and the lookout cage precluded the possibility of stowing this derrick in the same manner as the one on the after side mast, what was done with the derrick when not in use is anyone's guess.
		These photos show her with the swinging boom on the after side of the foremast and another swinging boom on the forward side of the fore mast.
	www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /discus/messages/6584/93707.html?1116268699 (4373 words)

	Ocean Institute Press
		During a routine maintenance examination last spring, it was discovered that the Pilgrim’s foremast was rotting and in danger of collapse.
		Volunteers launched an effort to replace the foremast, which involved de-rigging and re-rigging of the ship, and raising the funds needed to complete the project.
		Arrival of the new foremast is a major step in the effort to preserve the vessel.
	www.ocean-institute.org /news/news37.html (318 words)

	Notes on Warrior Rigging 1860-1997
		The size of her masts, very similar to those of victory - was determined by her beam where the masts were stepped and since the mainmast was approximately amidships it followed that the ship's beam gave the shrouds the greatest spread and the mast the greatest height.
		The foremast was taller than the mizzen as the former had greater lateral support.
		To achieve correct sailing balance the foremast was placed just abaft the stempost and the mizzen between the main and the stern, which explains why there is a larger gap between the foremast and the main, and main and the mizzen.
	www.maritime.org /conf/conf-morgan.htm (1894 words)

	The Flags of the Regia Marina
		Instituted by a general order dated September 11th, 1913 and hoisted at the foremast to indicate, should several destroyers or submarines come together, which ship has on board the senior officer.
		Instituted by a general order dated June 8th 1923 and hoisted at the foremast to indicate the Commander of a Flotilla of any type of small units: destroyers, torpedo boats, submarines, PT boats, etc.
		Instituted by a general order dated September 11th, 1913 and hoisted at the foremast to indicate the Commander of a formation of torpedo boats.
	www.regiamarina.net /ref/flags/pendant_us.htm (282 words)

	"Wayward Navigator Bed and Breakfast" Fiddler's Green Page
		A three-masted vessel; foremast, mainmast and mizenmast; the foremast only is square rigged, the main and mizenmasts are only fitted with gaff-sails and gaff-topsails.
		A five masted vessel: foremast, mainmast, middlemast, mizzen mast and jiggermast; the four foremost masts are square rigged, the hind-most mast carries no yards.
		A two masted vessel: foremast and mainmast, the foremast is fitted with yards and square sails; the main or aftermast, is rigged like the after mast in a brigantine.
	www.wayward.com /imp.htm (2244 words)

	illustrated square rigger terminology
		Forward of the mainmast is the FOREMAST and aft of the mainmast is the MIZZENMAST.
		So the sail on the foremast (the lowest of the stack of masts) is called a fore-course.
		A TOPSAIL SCHOONER has a foremast and a mainmast, with fore-and-aft sails on both masts and some square sails on the foremast.
	www.theageofsail.com /terms.htm (1189 words)

	Bowdoin National Historic Landmark Nomination
		With a jumbo staysail and flying job she carries 2,900 square feet of canvas.[7] The foremast carries an "ice bucket" or lookout, a common feature of vessels that sail in icy waters and a visually striking identifying feature of the schooner.
		The deck is broken by a slight rise abaft the foremast that marks the beginning of the forecastle deck; the remainder of the deck is flush.
		Skylights are arranged on the centerline commencing aft of the windlass.
	www.cr.nps.gov /maritime/nhl/bowdoin.htm (3580 words)

	Wm. B. Tennison National Historic Landmark Nomination
		The rudder is hung outboard of the sternpost on iron pintals.
		The foremast was retained to hold the hoisting rig used by a buyboat to move cargo.
		The present foremast, installed in 1976, is at least the second foremast on Tennison.
	www.cr.nps.gov /maritime/nhl/tennison.htm (3138 words)

	Sailing Ships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Fighting ships had a platform fixed to the top of the mainmast and it wasn't long before this was converted to carry a topmast - a small upper square sail.
		The Brig has only a main and foremast both fully square rigged and was a successful coastal and deep sea trader during the 18th and 19th centuries being capable of calling at smaller ports with smaller loads.
		The Hermaphrodite Brig, sometimes called the brigantine, had the foremast square rigged and the mainmast schooner rigged.
	www.red-duster.co.uk /DOFS.htm (707 words)

	Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A vessel of three to six masts, square rigged on the foremast, and fore-and-aft rigged on the others.
		A two-masted vessel, square rigged on the foremast, and fore-and-aft rigged on the main.
		In a square-rigged vessel, masts are often composed of separate sections: lower mast, topmast, topgallant mast, and royal mast.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_000109_glossary.htm (2898 words)

	Stays
		If abaft the foremast, the stay collar was led either side of the foremast (at this point on the mast a rubbing sleeve was often fitted) and if ahead of the foremast, the mainstay usually passed to starboard of the mast:
		Like the stays of the lower masts, the topmast stays were rigged over the topmast head by means of an eye secured with a mouse, or -in the 19th century -with a seized eye.
		Until the introduction of the jib boom, that is, in the period between 1500 and 1720, the fore topmast stay was attached to the bowsprit with multiple block systems up to 1670, then deadeyes and lanyards in small ships.
	www.all-model.com /wolfram/PAGE71.html (880 words)

	Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		a vessel with a square-rigged foremast and the rest of the masts fore and aft rigged.
		a two-masted vessel with the foremast square rigged and the mainmast fore and aft rigged.
		a triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /shipwrecks/gloss.htm (451 words)

	Sail Baltimore - types of Tall Ships
		has at least three masts, which are all fore and aft rigged, except the foremast which is fully- rigged, including a square forecourse.
		Schooners rigged with three or more masts have spars and rigging of uniform dimensions and scantlings for all masts, except the main boom of the aftermast which is heavier and longer.
		can be distinguished by square sails on the foremast, but differs from the brigantine and barquentine by having a gaft sail aloft the foremast.
	www.sailbaltimore.org /shiptypes.htm (291 words)

	Used Boats for Sale \| A Boat Trader Directory of Yachts and Boats
		Foremast the mast in the forepart of a vessel, nearest the bow.
		Foresail: - is set on the foremast of a schooner or the lowest square sail on the foremast of Sq riggers
		A piece of timber at the forward extremity of the keel, upon which the lower end of the stem rests.
	www.usedboats.com /nautical-terms-glossary.htm (11943 words)

	Anchorage on the Cove - Eastham Cape Cod
		Foremast is our premier waterfront cottage, with sparkling, spinnaker white and Cape Cod gray interiors.
		Spacious and airy, Foremast is bathed in light and is our brightest cottage.
		Foremast has two bedrooms, one with a queen-sized bed and one with two twin beds.
	www.anchorageonthecove.com /foremast.htm (157 words)

	Details of Gold Rush Ships, Captains, Ports and Passengers on The Maritime Heritage Project Site
		If a ship has two masts, the foremast square rigged and the main mast fore-and-aft rigged, it can be called a hermaphrodite brig or a brigantine.
		A topsail schooner has no tops at her foremast, and is fore-and-aft rigged at her mainmast.
		She differs from a hermaphrodite brig in that she is not properly square-rigged at her foremast, having no top, and carrying a fore-and-aft foresaill instead of a square foresail and a spencer.
	www.maritimeheritage.org /shipsdet.htm (974 words)

	Ocean Institute Press
		Restoration of the Ocean Institute’s tall ship Pilgrim, a replica of the 19th century ship which brought Richard Henry Dana to California as related in the classic book “Two Years Before the Mast,” is steadily progressing, reported project manager Doug Corey.
		In December, a long-anticipated new foremast is expected to arrive.
		This spring, when volunteers were preparing the ship for sailing, it was discovered that the 50-foot foremast had severe dry rot, and would have been in danger of breaking at sea.
	www.ocean-institute.org /news/news36.html (559 words)

	CCSU - The Death of Captain Cook by Richard P. Aulie
		In a burst of hard work and desperate urgency, the foremast was floated back to Resolution--sails, spars, tents, and observatory with it--and by 4 P.M. it was hoisted up and stretched the length of the ship from forecastle to quarterdeck.
		He replied that he could not possibly spare them while so much work remained to be done on the foremast; besides they did not yet have the Captain's bones back; but in several days when things were in better order, he would let them have muskets and time off for this worthy purpose.
		Within a few days, of course, they were tired out from the work--their thirty-six year-old captain saw to that--and a few of them had second thoughts as their emotions cooled.
	www.captaincooksociety.com /ccsu2537.htm (4542 words)

	FOREMAST HAS BEEN FITTED!
		The foremast about to be fitted, seen from the canon-deck.
		The foremast was taken to the equipment pier where the East Indiaman is placed.
		Sure it will take a while before all masts and bars have found their right place in the rig, but we are working as hard as we can to get the ship ready in time, says Björn Ahlander, in charge of the rig construction on the East Indiaman.
	www.soic.se /5.1e228bcf782be0db97fff1271.html (233 words)

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		Glover Joshua Foremast Man Stayed by the wreck, presumed to have died.
		Also listed as McDaniel McEwan Laurence Foremast Man Left behind during the journey Mixon William Quartermaster Monck Edward Foremast Man Left behind during the journey Morrison John Foremast Man Drowned whilst attempting to get ashore via a hawser.
		Wren Thomas Foremast Man ** This information is still being researched *
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Ridge/2216/text/GROSV.TXT (518 words)

	Schooner Vocabulary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		small stay sail located between the foremast and mainmast.
		sailing ships with at least 2 masts (foremast and mainmast) with the mainmast being the taller.
		Word derives from the term "schoon/scoon" meaning to move smoothly and quickly.
	archives.obs-us.com /obs/adventur/schooner/vocabulary/schooner.htm (625 words)

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