We then very quickly unrigged the tent and hauled down the flags, and, getting under weigh, took a cruise round the bay.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
He noted two short masts unrigged, a bridge forward of the wheel-house, together with a decidedly commodious cabin aft.
"The Case and The Girl"
Randall Parrish
But being apprehensive, that we should not be able to transport our ships to it, and to moor them properly, before night came on, I thought it best to remain where we were till next morning; and, that no time might be lost, I employed the remainder of the day to some useful purposes, ordering the sails to be unbent, the top-masts to be struck, and the fore-mast of the Resolution to be unrigged, in order to fix a new bib, one of the old ones being decayed.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16"
Robert Kerr