Closely following " Victory " as she passed through the Franco-Spanish line across the bows of the French flagship main topmast, and damaged her fore mast and bowsprit.
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This was an " inverted L " array running up to the top of a 100 foot high fore mast, and then across to a similar construction at the stern of the ship.
13.
Brig-sloops are sloops-of-war with two masts ( a fore mast and a taller main mast ) rather than the three masts of " ship sloops ".
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Williams had to give up the chase after a squall sent overboard " Decouverte " s fore-top-gallant mast and sprung her two lower masts, the fore mast badly.
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From 1951, a air and surface surveillance radar DRBV 11-type was installed atop the main mast, thus the DRBV 20-type and the DRBV 30-type radars were moved to the fore mast.
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Sails are referred to by their mast and then name, e . g ., " the fore mast topgallant sail ", often shortened to " fore t'gallant ", or historically " fore t'gar'ns'l ".
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Initially small and carried only on main and fore masts, they gradually increased in size and importance until by the middle of the 17th century and were the principal and largest sails of the ship, the first sails to be set and the last to be taken in.
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The ships'ram bow like contemporary German light cruisers . " Albatross " also had a higher forecastle that extended to the base of the main mast, while " Nautilus " was completed with a superstructure deck that began just aft of the fore mast.
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Compared to the " Colossus "-class battleships, the " Orion "-class design came across as sleeker and more refined than earlier ships; outwardly similar to the following the two could be told apart by the " Orion " s aft funnel being broader, and fore mast being placed aft of the smaller forward funnel.
