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Home Dictionary Name: mastheadPennant
A small flag a pennon The narrow pennant or long pennant called also whip or coach whip is a long narrow piece of bunting carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission The board pennant is an oblong nearly square flag carried at the masthead of a commodores vessel...
Backstay
A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship slanting a little aft to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast...
Crosstrees
Pieces of timber at a masthead to which are attached the upper shrouds At the head of lower masts in large vessels they support a semicircular platform called the ldquotoprdquo...
Dogvane
A small vane of bunting feathers or any other light material carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind...
High top
A ships masthead...
lightship
A vessel equipped like a lighthouse carrying at the masthead a brilliant light and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation where a permanent lighthouse would be impracticable to serve as a guide for mariners as the Ambrose lightship off New York was rammed and damaged in 1950 by the Santa Monica...
Masthead
The top or head of a mast the part of a mast above the hounds...
Roundtop
A top a platform at a masthead so called because formerly round in shape...
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