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After the storm passed, they were sighted drifting mastless on the Bay and were towed home by an obliging neighbor.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

It drew abeam, and we saw what it was, a derelict sailing ship, mastless and awash.

From Old Junk by Ratcliffe, S. K. (Samuel Kerkham)

Not daring to go nearer, the natives remained in the vicinity till the brigantine was nothing but a mastless, glowing mass of fire.

From The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 by Becke, Louis

Before the fifties were out, the naval and the national mind had been familiarized with the idea of mastless ships, long repulsive to the national sense of the picturesque at sea.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

The almiranta had time in which to leave, and made the voyage, although at great risk, reaching Nueva España in a mastless condition.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander