As the officer who had been in the fighting-top jumped clear into the sea, the vessel began to go down, now by the head.
On each mast, just above the lower yard, yet below the masthead, was a fighting-top built of elm wood and gilded over.
Beneath the fighting-top was the bridge, where the highest officials on the ship were watching her progress.
The guns in the fighting-top on our foremast were in readiness to engage.
There seems little doubt that our fighting-top was now coming in for the attention of most of the enemy guns.
