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

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- 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...
- garrison into believing that the Sutherland is friendly. His gun crews dismast all four enemy ships before cannon fire from the fort forces the British...
- 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...
- spars and rigging, could break the rudder, and in severe weather could dismast the ship. With tacking to windward carrying these risks, in some situations...
- sailing yacht had lost its keel and capsized, the boat was upright but dismasted, its rig dragging in the ocean from the broken mast, making satellite...
- 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...
- 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)...
- August.[citation needed] Are Wiig was dismasted on 17 August 400 nautical miles off Cape Town. Abhilash Tomy was dismasted and injured on 22 September. Gregor...
- much smaller firepower, and, their decks being lower, could easily be dismasted by raking fire. In addition, the Ottoman–Egyptians mainly deplo**** smaller-calibre...