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 for a Popish Contagion." In 1679, there appears from another pamphlet purporting to be written by Ketch himself, and entitled "The Man of Destiny's Hard Fortune", that the hangman was confined for a time in the Marshalsea prison, "whereby his hopeful harvest was like to have been blasted." A short entry in the autobiography of Anthony à Wood for 31 August 1681 describes how Stephen College was hanged in the Castle Yard, Oxford, "and when he had hanged about half an hour, was cut down by Catch or Ketch, and quartered under the gallows, his entrails were burnt in a