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Dismasting, also
spelled demasting,
occurs to a
sailing ship when one or more of the
masts responsible for
hoisting the
sails that
propel the
vessel breaks...
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British HMS
Sandwich fires at the
French flagship Bucentaure (completely
dismasted) in the
battle of Trafalgar.
Bucentaure also
fights HMS
Victory (behind...
- "Incredible"
struck on a
sunken rock in the Bay of Bengal. 1865: a gale
dismasted the
Euterpe while traversing the Bay of
Bengal typhoon. 1875:
Veleda -...
-
Stream is an 1899 oil
painting by
Winslow Homer. It
shows a man in a
small dismasted rudderless fishing boat
struggling against the storm-tossed
waves and...
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engaged by Aigle, Achille, Neptune, and Fougueux; she was soon
completely dismasted,
unable to
manoeuvre and
largely unable to fight, as her
sails blinded...
- 1614 and 1615 to
return to the same coast. On the
first trip, a
storm dismasted his ship. In the
second attempt, he was
captured by
French pirates off...
- STS
Pogoria is a
Polish barquentine launched in 1980. She was
designed by the
naval architect Zygmunt C****ń as the
first in a
series of (18 total) middle...
- Janeiro, New Orleans, Mozambique, Angola, and Britain. In May 1916 she was
dismasted off the Cape of Good Hope
because of the
rolling of the ship in bad weather...
- (helm, rudder, centreboard, daggerboards, rigging). Similarly,
after a
dismasting, a
replacement mast,
often referred to as a jury mast (and if necessary...
- that
brought the
mainmast down
shortly afterward.
Guerriere was now a
dismasted,
unmanageable hulk with
close to a
third of her crew
wounded or killed...
