Driver mast

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Driver mast is another name for the mizzen mast on one and a half masted ships ( yawl and ketch ) .

In addition, the driver mast is also a mast on ships with seven masts. So far there has only been one such ship, the Thomas W. Lawson . Since there is no standardization of the mast naming in the English system, there were different systems for naming your masts:

  • Fock , wholesale , Cross , Central , Tanzer- , driver, mizzen (ger .: fore, main, mizzen, middel, driver, pusher, spanker) One has the "pusher mast" translated here as "driver mast" . This designation is based on the German system, in which the central mast is driven in the middle, which is rarely used in the English system.
  • Fore, main, mizzen, jigger, driver, pusher, spanker standard translation of "driver mast" with "driver mast"
  • Fore, main, mizzen, spanker, jigger, driver, pusher, this is how the masts were named when they were launched. They were never called that in German, since the mizzen mast is always the last one here.