mizzentop

Lord Nelson died on his flagship HMS Victory when he was hit by a musket bullet fired from the mizzentop of the French ship Redoutable by a sniper.

Archive 2008-10-19 de Brantigny........................ 2008

Lord Nelson died on his flagship HMS Victory when he was hit by a musket bullet fired from the mizzentop of the French ship Redoutable by a sniper.

Battle of Trafalgar de Brantigny........................ 2008

Thus, the mizzentop is that platform on the aftermost mast, or “mizzenmast.”

A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

He did what he could to escape: he thought of girls, especially the pretty Miss Taylor; he climbed to the mizzentop to study Greek, slid on the jibboom to catch bonito, swung in a hammock beneath the spanker boom.

A Furnace Afloat JOE JACKSON 2003

From my position by the quarterdeck rail, I watched the mizzentop and main topgallant struck and the remainder of our hamper reefed again and again.

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

It was fortunate that Bush in the mizzentop still had a view up the Goulet and had not descended; reports should be made independently, each officer out of the hearing of the other, but it would have been tactless to ask Bush to stand aside.

Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962

Seventeen of us got over the mizzentop, and with our knives fell to hacking away at such running gear as we could come at to serve as lashings.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

I was next the captain in the mizzentop, and near him was his brother, a stout-built, handsome young fellow, twenty-two years old, as fine a specimen of the English sailor as ever I was shipmate with.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

Had I reflected before I left the mizzentop, I should not have believed that I had the strength to work my way for'rards like that; my hands felt as if they were skinned and my finger-joints appeared to have no use in them.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

When the hawser reaches the ship it is made taut and secured to the mizzentop or mainmast, high enough to swing clear of the taffrail.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various