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 ...
you can see the forward hold and skylight with the fo'c'sle deck (the upper-deck forward of the foremast) just beyond. The fo'c'sle deck is damaged, for although the vessel went down keel first ...
One white man in particular I saw, when we were permitted to be on deck, flogged so unmercifully with a large rope near the foremast, that he died in consequence of it; and they tossed him over ...
Forecasting errors have increased ... Forecastle refers to the upper deck of a sailing ship forward of the foremast, or the forward part of a ship with the sailors' living quarters. Related to the ...