Mast (sailing) single pieces of timber, which were known as pole masts. For square-sail carrying ship, the masts, given their standard names in bow to stern (front to back) order, are: Some names given to masts in ships carrying other types of rig (where the naming is less standardised) are: Most types of vessels with two masts are supposed to have a main-mast and a smaller mizzen-mast, although both brigs and two-masted schooners carry a fore-mast and a main-mast instead. On a two-masted vessel with the main-mast forward and a much smaller second mast, such as a ketch, or particularly a yawl,
Jack Ketch fire made by the gallows". On that occasion, Ketch wielded the instrument of death either with such sadistically nuanced skill or with such lack of simple dexterity – nobody could tell which – that the victim suffered horrifically under blow after blow, each excruciating but not in itself lethal. Even among the bloodthirsty throngs that habitually attended English beheadings, the gory and agonizing display had created such outrage that Ketch felt moved to write and publish a pamphlet titled "Apologie", in which he excused his performance with the claim that Lord Russell had failed to "dispose himself as was most