Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.

And it was clear that Adrien was not mistaken, for both Small and Cromwell took no step toward aiding in the sending up of the new topgallant mast till Philip Spencer had given the signal to obey.

When the mast was raised, Alexander gave the order for Small and Cromwell to be placed under arrest, and now three figures in irons sprawled upon the open deck and terror stalked the Somers.

The constellation Pyxis ( the mariner's compass ) occupies an area which in antiquity was considered part of Argo's mast ( called Malus ).

On 6 November 2008 both officers were found guilty at an admiral's mast on unspecified charges but the resulting punishment was not disclosed.

Carriage one was torn open when it collided with a severed mast beside the track, killing eight passengers.

Later versions had a rectangular sail on a single mast which was used to replace or augment the effort of the rowers, particularly during long journeys.

The keel was a flattened plank about twice as thick as a normal strake plank, but not considered strong enough to withstand the downwards thrust of a mast.

The mast was now square in section and located toward the middle of the ship, and could be lowered and raised.

The sail was held in place by the mast which was up to 16 m tall.

The mast was supported by a large wooden maststep called a kerling (" Old Woman " in Old Norse ) that was semicircular in shape.

It was a large wooden bulk of timber about 3 m long with a 1. 4 m long slot, facing aft to accommodate the mast as it was raised.

It was an early form of mast partner but was aligned fore and aft.

When lowered the mast foot was kept in the base of the mast step and the top of the mast secured in a natural wooden crook about 1. 5 m-2. 5 m high, on the port side, so that it did not interfer with steering on the starboard side.

An omnidirectional low-gain antenna was mounted on a seven foot, four inch ( 223. 5 cm ) tall mast next to the high-gain antenna.

All of the sailors except for Odysseus, who was tied to the mast as he wanted to hear the song, had their ears plugged up with beeswax.

The constellation is located close to those forming the old constellation of Argo Navis ( the ship Argo ), and in the 19th century astronomer John Herschel suggested renaming Pyxis to ' Malus, the mast ', but the suggestion was not followed.

The satellite feed of one station, WPIX, froze on the last image received from the WTC mast ; the image ( a remote-camera shot of the burning towers ), viewable across North America ( as WPIX is available on cable TV in many areas ), remained on the screen for much of the day until WPIX was able to set up alternate transmission facilities.

* 1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.

* 1974 – Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time.

** The Warsaw radio mast is completed, the second tallest structure ever built ( it collapses on August 8, 1991 ).

* August 8 – The Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time, collapses.

The largest yachting sloop built to date is Mirabella V, with a carbon-fiber mast that is 289 feet ( 90 m ) high.

The only seven-masted ( steel hulled ) schooner, the Thomas W. Lawson, was built in 1902, with a length of, the top of the tallest mast being above deck, and carrying 25 sails with of total sail area.

* cog: plank built, one mast, square rigged

It is a guyed mast owned by Pegasus Broadcasting Inc. with a height of, which was built in 1966.

* Pesochnaya TV Mast ( 195-m tall guyed tubular steel mast built in 1962, which is equipped with 6 crossbars running in 2 levels from the mast structure to the guys )

As part of the primary Fort Smith metropolitan area, many Fort Smith based television stations including KHBS and KFSM, whose radio mast is built in Van Buren, provide local news and weather.

The Tenney Fire Hall, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was a small wood frame building with a bell tower and flag mast, built in 1904.

At Gladsaxe, there is a 206. 5 metres tall guyed TV mast, which was built in 1955.

In the 1960s a 50m-high telecommunications mast was built.

In Vladikavkaz, there is a guyed TV mast, tall, built in 1961, which has six crossbars with gangways in two levels running from the mast structure to the guys.

Paynesville Omega Transmitter ( station B-) was inaugurated in 1976 and used as radio antenna an umbrella aerial mounted on a 417 metre tall grounded guyed mast of lattice steel, which was the tallest structure ever built in Africa.

This mast, which was built in 1973 and which was the tallest structure in Japan ( and perhaps the tallest tubular steel mast ever built ) was dismantled in 1998 by crane.

On its former site, an approximately 8 metre-tall memorial consisting of the mast base ( without the insulator ) and a segment was built.

Several local broadcasters have transmitted from an antenna mast atop the building, beginning when it became Atlanta's tallest, but declining since others have been built around it.

On 8 August 1991 at 16: 00 UTC Warsaw radio mast, the tallest man-made object ever built before the erection of Burj Khalifa collapsed as consequence of an error in exchanging the guy-wires on the highest stock.

Completed in 1963, it was the tallest structure ever built until succeeded by the Warsaw radio mast in 1974 ; that mast collapsed in 1991, making the KVLY-TV mast again the tallest structure in the world until the Burj Khalifa overtook it in 2010.

Repair work was very difficult and replacement of the mast by a stronger construction of the same height was considered.

A replacement mast of the same height as the one destroyed was completed in four and a half months.

Work began on replacement of the full-height mast with a more durably-built structure on April 1, 1998, and had reached the tower's previous height by July 30.

Originally a nautical term, on sailing ships a jury rig is a replacement mast and yards improvised in case of damage or loss of the original mast.

Already on the afternoon of that day as replacement for the first FM-transmitter which used the mast went on air again, by using a communication tower of Deutsche Telekom as transmission site.

A new replacement mast has now been built and is in full service.

Mast was built as replacement of 324 metre tall guyed mast, built of lattice steel in 1959 / 60.