Yantic, an 1864 wooden hull gunboat, was based at Hancock ... One of her three masts was removed and her rigging substantially changed (one of the removed yard-arms was later put on display at the ...

and after the ship broke in two “halfway up the rigging,” it sank in just 10 minutes. Everyone on board was able to get into two lifeboats (one wooden and one metal), but the metal lifeboat ...