Word: mainmast
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When the Mary E. O'Hara came to rest on the bottom, twelve feet of her mainmast, five feet of her foremast stuck out above the waves. There on slippery, ice-covered halyards clung more than a dozen of her crew. Some of them were dressed only in the underwear in which they had slept. It was about 3:30 of a January morning...
...fertilizer factory in Crisfield, Md., had sailed without her. Captain Grant did not mind sea smells, but she drew the line at the stink of empty oyster shells. A sudden bay squall caught the Fannie off dangerous Windmill Point, in the Rappahannock River. The foremast snapped, then the mainmast crashed over the side. The Fannie's seams opened, the sea poured in. Captain Wilbur Willey, the mate and the cook got a small boat over, abandoned ship just in time. Down sank the Fannie with scarcely a gurgle...
...President crossed the dock-level gangplank; there was the usual trilling of the bos'n's whistle piping the President over the side as eight boys stood at attention; the four-starred flag of the Commander in Chief of the Army & Navy was broken out at the mainmast; a bugle sounded, bluejackets scurried about the decks, the big gasoline motors began to roar, and the Potomac moved down the historic river toward...
...hung out near the gun and got the men coffee. That's all I could think of doing. I heard somebody say 'Here he is' and then came an explosion. Oh, mother! I'll never hear another like that. Our mainmast went down and the whole centre of the bridge and all the steering apparatus...
...lead in his cousin's story, Hall found his brawn useful when battered daily in the Goldwyn tank by repetitious deluges of 2,000 gallons of water, thrown at him from a height of 65 feet, for his aquatic skill when he dived from the 70-ft. mainmast of a schooner, from a 75-ft. cliff, freestyled through the water while sharpshooters pumped bullets around...