Definition of Dismastment. Meaning of Dismastment. Synonyms of Dismastment

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Definition of Dismastment

Dismastment
Dismastment Dis*mast"ment, n. The act of dismasting; the state of being dismasted. [R.] --Marshall.

Meaning of Dismastment from wikipedia

- Dismasting, also called demasting, occurs to a sailing ship when one or more of the masts responsible for hoisting the sails that propel the vessel breaks...
- mainly on canned food during this time. On November 22 – 41 days after the dismasting – Ashcraft reached Hilo, Hawaii. 2002: Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story...
- British HMS Sandwich fires at the French flagship Bucentaure (completely dismasted) in the battle of Trafalgar. Bucentaure also fights HMS Victory (behind...
- 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...
- daggerboards, rigging). Similarly, a jury mast is a replacement mast after a dismasting. If necessary, a yard would also be fashioned and sta**** to allow a watercraft...
- engaged by Aigle, Achille, Neptune, and Fougueux; she was soon completely dismasted, unable to manoeuvre and largely unable to fight, as her sails blinded...
- 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...
- 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...
- than a metre of solid oak, from a distance of 90 m (300 ft), and could dismast even the largest ships at close range. Full cannon fired a 42-pound (19 kg)...
- "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 -...