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• Her fore-topgallant main and cross-jack yard were shot away, her yards, rigging, and sails sadly cut up, but what injuries her hull had received we could not make out On closing with each other, both ships hove-to, and our third lieutenant, Mr Pellowe, whose name curiously enough was very like that of our captain (we used to call the one the Owe, the other the Ew), went on board, accompanied by Commander Israel Pellew. —  Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor
• We now saw the Royal Sovereign making signals to the two ships to go ahead, while she, shortening sail, took her station next in line to the Brunswick We had kept up so hot a fire on the first ship which had attacked us, that we had at length knocked away her main-topgallant mast and had done considerable damage to her rigging. —  Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor
• Dick and I sprang up the main rigging, and I hurried aloft to clear the main-topgallant mast, while two others, imitating our example, ascended the fore rigging. —  Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor
• When we came down off the yards, we saw that she had shortened sail, but not before she also had carried away her fore-topgallant mast. —  Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor
• I shouted again and again, but the flapping of the sails, the rattling of the blocks, and the howling of the wind drowned my voice At the same time the main-topgallant mast with its sail and yard was carried away. —  Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor

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