lower-mast

And in the meanwhile, the rigging was prepared, and when this was finished, they made ready the shears to hoist the spare topmast, intending this to take the place of the main lower-mast.

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' 2007

Presently we had laid them bare, and so we discovered them to be in remarkably sound condition, the lower-mast especially being a fine piece of timber.

The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' 2007

Unknown to us, this had happened to a strong, new manilla rope by which Murphy was being hauled to the top of the lower-mast.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

August, and, by September 1, two masts, each consisting of a lower-mast and top-mast, had been raised and stayed, while between them stretched the aerial.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

And in the meanwhile, the rigging was prepared, and when this was finished, they made ready the shears to hoist the spare topmast, intending this to take the place of the main lower-mast.

The Boats of the Glen Carrig: Chapter 16 1907

Yet, further than this, the bo'sun bade the carpenter make wooden caps of six inch oak, these caps to fit over the squared heads of the lower-mast stumps, and having a hole, each of them, to embrace the jury-mast, and by making these caps in two halves, they were abled to bolt them on after the masts had been hove into position.

The Boats of the Glen Carrig: Chapter 16 1907

Up went the boat's helm in an instant; and as she dragged heavily on the steep incline of the wave which had just swept under her, Bob saw floating close past a large mass of tangled wreckage, consisting of a ship's lower-mast with the heel of the topmast still in its place, and yards, stays, shrouds, braces, etcetera, attached.

The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific Harry Collingwood 1886

This formed a rectangular staging, with the lower-mast running fore and aft through its centre.

Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War Harry Collingwood 1886

I looked in the direction he indicated, and there, upon our lower-mast - head, and also upon the trysail gaff-end, was a globe of pale, sickly green light, which wavered to and fro, lengthening out and flattening in again as the cutter tossed wildly over the mountainous seas.

For Treasure Bound Harry Collingwood 1886

On looking round he found that numerous pieces of the wreck floated near him, and that the portion to which he clung was the broken lower-mast.

Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader 1859