Pole head

The sketch is from a photograph, and shows one of these old type of vessels before a light wind, with a small square topsail set upon the polehead of her single lofty spar.

She was painted in encaustic purple, with a scarlet forecastle; her stern canopy was of laminated and gilded plates, with a carved lantern hanging from a scroll, and silk curtains to conceal the General's couch; her sails, reefed to the yard, were of purple silk; and at her polehead flew the purple flag -- the signal for action.

Thus the mizen-mast is devoid of a mizen-topgallant, despite a topmast polehead long enough to carry one.

They are not seen again until the camping-ground for the night is reached, when the four tents will be found pitched ready for us, with English and American flags flying at their poleheads.

From a polehead flew a homemade flag cut from red, white and blue cloth. This ragtag banner sported the national colors of Hayes' homeland, USA.

They were getting well up with the Town Hall, in what is now Gardd Street, still the flag floated at the polehead, in token that they had got thus far without serious mishap, and then it had to be run down to the half-mast.

The second type of collector is of the wood-pole, lubricated slider variety, having a box-type pole, poleheads that are individually flexible, and roller-bearing base provided with a passage for the cables and a stop to limit rotation.

The best pole-chains are those one end of which is fastened to a langet - frequently called a bridle - which slips over the end of the pole-hook, and fits into its place at the end of the polehead, the other end of the pole-chain having a long hook.