She had been dismasted in the storm, but had not struck until after daylight that morning, and help had been close at hand and promptly given.

I have been told by an old shipmaster, how, when he was a young mate, his ship was dismasted on the Banks of Newfoundland, on a voyage to Europe.

Of two other ships that left New York the same day that we did, one was dismasted to the south of us, and the other had her quarters stove in and barely escaped foundering just to the north of us.

"I stuck by you when you was dismasted under Hatteras, and I stick by everything that I undertake.