Word: mainmast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...founder, William Henry Webb, learned the business from his father Isaac, a flourishing New York shipbuilder of the early 1800s. Taking over in 1840, he turned out 138 major vessels during the next three decades. Among them were the clipper ships Challenge, which had a 210-ft. mainmast (the tallest ever built) with almost three acres of sail, and the Comet, which set the record (76 days) for sailing round the Horn from San Francisco to New York...
About 11 p.m., Harvey testified at a hearing, he encountered a sudden tropical squall, which snapped the mainmast before he could reef sail. Mary Harvey and Dr. Duperrault were slightly injured but not badly, as the splintered mast pierced the deck. Harvey was separated from the others by the fallen mast; then fire broke out in the fuel storage tank, spreading to the crumpled sails. Quickly, Harvey released the dinghy and a raft, ordered the others to abandon ship. Then he dived after them and swam to the drifting dinghy. He recovered René, unconscious while floating in an oversized...
...shore transmitter. The yacht replied: "Destination unknown-high seas." Later that morning, under a brilliant sun, Princess Margaret, in a red sweater and skirt, and Tony Armstrong-Jones, in blue blazer and white slacks, lay back in deck chairs on a secluded sundeck. From the topmost point of the mainmast fluttered Meg's personal standard...