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The dance mast is a mast that is built on ships with six or seven masts.

Since a ship with more than five masts has never been built in a German shipyard, there is no original name for this mast, "Tanzermast" is just a translation of the English "jiggermast", in German you can also find the terms "Tänzermast" and " Jigger mast ". On six-mast gaff schooners , the dancing mast is the fourth mast (counted from the bow). With seven masters it is a little more complicated: There was only one ship with seven masts, the THOMAS W. LAWSON . Since there is no standardization of mast names in the English system, there were several systems for naming their masts:

• Fock , wholesale , Cross , Central , Tanzer-, driver , mizzen (ger .: fore, main, mizzen, middel, driver, pucher, spanker) One has the "driver mast" translated here as "Tanzermast". The naming is based on the German system, however, since a central mast is rarely used in English.
• Fore, main, mizzen, jigger, driver, pusher, spanker mast, large mast, cross mast, dancer mast, driver mast, slide mast mast
• Fore, main, mizzen, spanker, jigger, driver, pucher) (this is how the masts were named when they were launched. They were never named in German so, since the mizzen mast is always the last)