11. Two days later he was hanged from the yardarm of the vessel as a deterrent to others. 12. It is a single 7-inch block that is suspended from an eyebolt at the yardarm . 13. His shot, taken from a vantage point aboard the vessel's yardarm , was an exclusive. 14. He was just about at eye level with the 11 men on the yardarm of the mizzen mast. 15. The only ensign ever flown from the starboard spreader or yardarm is that of a nation being visited. 16. On boarding the ship Hornblower and his men are frustrated by the absence of a footrope along the yardarm . 17. Motivated by this act of emotional self-flagellation Hornblower runs unaided along the yardarm and looses the topsail. 18. On 29 October 1792, three condemned mutineers of the Mutiny on the Bounty were hanged from her yardarms . 19. They hand-washed cloth diapers and hung them to dry on the yardarm where they usually put signal flags. 20. Having swept the Blue Jays, manager Buck Showalter wasn't standing on the yardarm , belching false hopes.