So if all your nautical knowledge comes from books, you might be mispronouncing quite a few common terms (or at least not saying them how a bona fide sailor would—dictionaries generally accept the ...

Between frenzied hunts, the crews – numbering 20 to 30 men, including harpooners, foremast hands, sailmakers, officers, shipwrights, carpenters, coopers and blacksmiths – needed to catch and ...

The sailor, who has dreamed of sailing in the Vendee Globe since childhood, said was nursing his yacht back to the finish in France under two jibs (foremast sails). "It's a change of story and I'm ...

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A cannonball was fired into HMS Victory's foremast during the Battle of Trafalgar A wooden foremast from HMS Victory featuring a hole punched into it by a cannonball during the Battle of Trafalgar ...