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Her skipper came on board the brig, and we started talking of Taplin, whom the whale-ship captain knew. "Didn't you hear?" he said. "The ALIDA never showed up again. 'Turned turtle, I suppose, somewhere in the islands, like all those slashing, over-masted, 'Frisco-built schooners do, sooner or later." "Poor Taplin," said Warren, "I thought somehow we would never see him again."
I had no mast or sail in mine, but I made a mast out of a spare oar and hoisted a boat-awning for a sail, with a boat-hook for a yard. She was certainly over-masted, but I had the satisfaction of knowing that with the wind aft I could beat the other two. I had to wait for them.
At first these ships were over-masted and canvassed, but after one of them, the Captain, capsized during a gale in the Bay of Biscay, this defect was remedied. This class was represented by the Monarch, completed in 1869, a vessel of 8930 tons, and 15 knots speed. She carried seven guns, those in the turrets weighing 25 tons.
"I'm precious glad I ain't goin' to sea in her," observed another. "Same here," said the first speaker. "Why, look at the Siren over there! She's a 38-gun frigate, and her mainmast is only two feet longer than the Daphne's as I happen to know, for I had a hand in the buildin' of both the spars. The sloop's over-masted, that's what she is." I turned away and bent my steps homeward.
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