Show american cap defender disabled while dash eg along in a good whole ail breeze off brenton s reef 1 near newport R 1I tuesday after noon with three lower sails set the h g hollow steel main mast on the deafen ler const aution collapsed like a blow pipe through the sudden break ing of the starboard and windward spreader the roast broke off only a few feet belo v the spreader about three fifths of the length of the mast above the deck and as the topmast was carried way at the same time none of the epars struck the deck except the boom and the latter hit it only 1 blows which did not injure the hull at al none of the sails were torn and all can be used aga n |