Possible Clues:

• Main offenders suspended from this branch of the Met?
• Three feet at the top of the wrong limb for the sailor
• Either end of pole supporting sail
• Three feet to one hand at the end of it
• In the dockyard, Armenian found half of a ship's spar
• Measure a marine's support for canvas
• Three feet - one with a hand on board
• Tapering end of beam hung on mast
• Hanging place on board old ships
• End of stout pole providing police with weapon