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...I was under the necessity of cutting away the Masts, the preservation ofthose left on the wreck had now become some what precarious... Master GeorgeRead describing his efforts to slow the destruction of the USS CHIPPEWA bycutting away the masts. The remnants of the wooden mast deteriorated over time,but the stout mast band survives. (Image credit: The Search for Trouvadore 2008, NOAA-OER. | Donald H. Keith)