Word: topmast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loss, wedged on the reef with a 100° list, wrecked pilothouse gone, light bulkheads crushed, spar deck swept clean, gun-deck partially under water and littered with wreckage, engine rooms obstructed with wreckage and filled two feet deep with sand and coral, the starboard side crushed, one funnel, topmast and all top hamper down or overboard...
...Then, it will be remembered, conditions had to be exactly right; the sea could not be too choppy, yet there had to be enough wind to make it a race. If the weather kicked up rough at all, one or the other of the boats would carry away a topmast and have to refit...