What is "dismasted"

Usage examples of "dismasted".

But the Argonaute had dismasted Spite without any challenge or warning.

I feel strained, half stranded, as ropes that tow dismasted frigates in a gale.

Describing the way that two French ships of the line had been dismasted and left wallowing helplessly alongside each other was going to be difficult enough, and it was straining credulity not to have their names.

Ramage glanced at the chart: there were no outlying rocks: they could manoeuvre without risk, except that if either of them was dismasted they would be blown on to the rocks, since this was a lee shore.

He could even picture Undine dismasted and wallowing amongst her own dead and dying before her final plunge.

Jack could bear it no longer: he hurried up on deck in time to see a breeze spring up off the land and the squadron make sail on the starboard tack, standing eastwards for Gibraltar and leaving the dismasted, helpless Hannibal to her fate under the guns of the Torre del Almirante.

The first person Jack saw upon it, standing there with his hands behind his back and looking down on his own dismasted ship, was Captain Ferris of the Hannibal.

She was hove-to as well, looking queerly lopsided in her partially dismasted condition.

Even if she were not dismasted, she would be too crippled to withstand the next encounter.

That typhoon was horribly destructive: two Indiamen were dismasted and many, many country ships foundered.

A moment later he felt Southwick tapping his arm and, glancing where he pointed, saw the Topaz less than three hundred yards away, dismasted and lying to the wreckage like a thick stick held in a mill-stream by pieces of string.

He had been careful to cover the period from the onset of the hurricane up to the dismasted Triton running on the reef at Snake Island.

He had been horribly reckless in his handling of the ship — only by the greatest good fortune was she not now a dismasted wreck, with half her crew killed and wounded, drifting on to a lee shore, with an exultant enemy awaiting her.

Despite the chill of the wind and the steady rain the Sutherland's topmen were sweating freely soon, thanks to the constant active exertion demanded of them by their captain, as he backed and filled, worked up to windward and went about, keeping his ship hovering round the dismasted Pluto like a seagull round a bit of wreckage.

Hornblower's imagination was hard at work trying to calculate, on quite insufficient data, the rate of drift he could expect and the possible distance the Sutherland would be able to tow the dismasted three-decker in the time granted.