| 11. | Two days later he was hanged from the yardarm of the vessel as a deterrent to others.
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| 12. | It is a single 7-inch block that is suspended from an eyebolt at the yardarm.
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| 13. | His shot, taken from a vantage point aboard the vessel's yardarm, was an exclusive.
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| 14. | He was just about at eye level with the 11 men on the yardarm of the mizzen mast.
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| 15. | The only ensign ever flown from the starboard spreader or yardarm is that of a nation being visited.
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| 16. | On boarding the ship Hornblower and his men are frustrated by the absence of a footrope along the yardarm.
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| 17. | Motivated by this act of emotional self-flagellation Hornblower runs unaided along the yardarm and looses the topsail.
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| 18. | On 29 October 1792, three condemned mutineers of the Mutiny on the Bounty were hanged from her yardarms.
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| 19. | They hand-washed cloth diapers and hung them to dry on the yardarm where they usually put signal flags.
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| 20. | Having swept the Blue Jays, manager Buck Showalter wasn't standing on the yardarm, belching false hopes.
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