On the fourth the wind fell, leaving the ship dismasted and heaving on vast billows.
Soon after leaving the Channel, the Salisbury and Exeter were dismasted in a storm, and were obliged to put into Lisbon to repair damages.
Off the Cape they encountered a heavy storm, which dismasted the ship, forced them to throw many of their guns overboard, and obliged them to put back to Bourbon to refit.
Nearly all the ships of war were dismasted and otherwise disabled.
Already, it will have been observed, one dismasted vessel, the Danish brig Hercules, has come in; and more may be looked for in the course of the next fortnight.
Throughout the remainder of the two fleets were seen only dismasted vessels, and sails perforated through and through by cannon-balls.
He asked her commander in French if she wanted any assistance; to which he answered, "No, that he had been dismasted in a heavy gale, and had parted with the French fleet three days ago.
Upon the clearing up of the smoke, eight or ten French ships were seen, some totally dismasted and others with only one mast standing, endeavouring to make off under their sprit-sails.
He perceived now that she was dismasted and had a bad list.
Dismasted in a cyclone ten days ago west of the Andamans; been adrift ever since.
She was dismasted a fortnight ago in a cyclone south of the Andamans, and while drifting, fire broke out in the forehold, and was kept under with the greatest difficulty.
This she luckily did in splendid style, gathering way quickly, and steering like a little boat, otherwise I firmly believe that the first stroke would have dismasted us.
We hear that the Arathusa frigate was dismasted in the engagement with the two French frigates above mentioned.
There was something indescribably disheartening in the looks of the dismasted "International" as the twins came forth, refreshed by several hours of welcome slumber, after the long agony of the past night.
A tremendous gale followed, scattered both fleets, and dismasted several of the French.
Having disposed of his special antagonist without losing his own spars, the same man kept along in search of new adventures, until he came to a British ship totally dismasted and otherwise badly damaged.
The people in the dismasted ship had discovered the Young America, as it appeared from the efforts they were using to attract her attention.
The Young America stood up towards the wreck, intending to pass under her stern as near as it was prudent to lay, the head of the dismasted ship being to the north-west.
At four bells, when all hands but the second part of the port watch were piped to attend divine service in the steerage, the Young America was about four miles distant from the dismasted vessel.
One is the duel fought between the Director and the Vryheid, in which the Dutch ship was dismasted and destroyed--a naval duel at which no other ship on either side was present, or within reach or sight.
The lookouts soon proclaimed it to be a dismasted ship.
As on they rushed in their still headlong course, not only did they see that she was dismasted but was keel upward, the seas constantly breaking over.
He was in more than one tempest, and formed one of a boat's crew who boarded a dismasted Indiaman, at the risk of their own lives, and were the means of preserving those of all on board.
They were just in time to see the after-part of the dismasted ship, as, plunging head first, she went down beneath the foaming billows.
The news that a dismasted ship was in sight brought all the passengers who were below on deck, and numerous glasses were now turned towards her.
The fire was then directed on Le Peuple Souverain, until she cut and dropped out of the line, totally dismasted and silenced.
Then the fire from the battery very soon dismasted her, and compelled her to strike.
Eight British ships set on the five of the French van, the two others engaged two Frenchmen of much larger size in the centre, and one of them, the Bellerophon, was dismasted and drifted off.
Six French ships were taken besides the Vengeur; five dismasted and several crippled ships were brought away by Villaret.
We beat her off, with great loss, and, taking advantage of the fact that you had dismasted us with that last venomous broadside that you poured into us just as we ran alongside you, your people made good their escape.
Your fire was tremendous for me; and I can with truth affirm that it was you who did me most damage, and who dismasted my vessel, which was the reason that I was unable to capture the Thetis.
The Frenchman declares that it was the Ceres which dismasted his ship, though both the captains state in their letters that she lost her foremast, etc.
The Aurora fell in with one of these storms on the 18th, and, in spite of the brave efforts of master and crew, she was cast, dismasted and helpless, on the coast of Africa.
The carpenter, who, notwithstanding the uneasiness of the dismasted vessel, was performing his important share of the work, immediately complied with the order.
They met with a violent storm off the coast of Oran, which dismasted many of their ships, and so effectually disabled them as to prevent the junction, and frustrate a well-planned expedition.
The two first ships of the French line had been dismasted within a quarter of an hour after the commencement of the action; and the others had in that time suffered so severely that victory was already certain.
A small garrison was left in each of the forts, and the seamen remained in prison on board the dismasted prize, under a strong guard.
The ship was bound to Liverpool, but being dismasted in a terrific gale, she was driven past the entrance to the Channel, and up the west coast of Ireland.
He raised himself to his feet, and was pointing to the frigate, which, having passed to windward of the dismasted brig, was now hove-to.
The moment was happy, it was just when a great glare of lightning burst through the black mass of cloud, and lit up the centre of the lake, at the very moment that a dismasted boat was being drifted along to, I suppose, certain destruction.
I feel strained, half-stranded, as ropes that tow dismasted frigates in a gale; and I may look so.
Nothing but the ordinary incidents of a voyage were found until they reached the date June 1st, where entry was made of the ship being "caught aback" and dismasted off the Cape of Good Hope in a sudden gale.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dismasted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
