With a nominal Queen Elizabeth I . " Triumph " was a square-rigged galleon of four masts, including two lateen-rigged mizzenmasts.
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The Spanish frigate having lost her mizzenmast at around 8pm hauled down her colours, and then was taken possession of by the " Success ".
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After nearly forty minutes " Solitaire " had her mizzenmast shot away, her rigging and sails in tatters, and was becoming dead in the water.
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The stalemate was inadvertently solved by the Americans, who shot and broke the Black Prince's mizzenmast such that it formed a bridge between the two ships.
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Other ships suffered too, as the French " R�solue " sprang a severe leak and HMS " Anson " lost her mizzenmast and several topmasts.
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Despite the collapsed wreckage of the mizzenmast and fore topmast, his gunnery teams managed to cut away enough of the obstruction to fire a raking broadside at the French vessel.
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Didn't you read, these people were trying to say in typically helpful fashion, that coolness lies in letting shirttails flap in the wind like a sail on the mizzenmast?
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The " Great Republic " had three masts, and was full ship-rigged, her foremast, however being the highest of the three, and her mizzenmast the shortest.
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To alleviate the cramped conditions of the steersmen, the ship's wheel was transferred from the gun deck to a platform that spanned her bulwarks in front of the mizzenmast in 1871.
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Over two dozen officers testified against him, stating that he had not encouraged his men to fight but dodged behind the mizzenmast falling down on the deck at the sound of a shot.
