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    The tripod mast is a type of mast used on warships from the Edwardian era onwards,[dubious – discuss] replacing the pole mast. Tripod masts are distinctive...
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    A pagoda mast was a type of superstructure erected on a tripod mast that was common on Japanese capital ships that were reconstructed during the 1930s...
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    and tripod masts have been used—also, on some past Japanese warships, complex pagoda masts. USS Nevada with lattice masts HMS Invincible with tripod masts...
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    with British tripod masts for the first time while serving with the Grand Fleet during World War I. Unlike lattice masts, the heavier tripods did not suffer...
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    radar installed atop her tripod mast, and her SC radar was relocated to her mainmast. Unlike her sisters, Hornet's tripod mast and its signal bridge were...
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    island was to be 110 feet (33.5 m) long, containing two funnels and a tripod mast. They were staggered to make it more difficult for an enemy ship to estimate...
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  • search radars, one mounted on the tripod mast on the island and the other on the aft starboard retractable radio mast. Amagi's keel was laid down by Mitsubishi...
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  • and receivers. In succeeding decades, tripod masts replaced the earlier pole masts and lattice masts. Tripod masts persisted in some navies until the 1960s...
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    makeshift foremast was built from one of the struts of the original tripod mast. The spotting tower at the rear of the conning tower was removed, the...
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    funnel. She had a new bridge, her original tripod mast and spotting top were replaced by a straight pole mast, and carried a crane amidships designed for...
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    pajala type hull with Makassar-styled rudder mounting and tripod mast. The second tripod mast is supported by the roof of its deckhouse. This boat carried...
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    by an armoured hood, and the other was in the spotting top above the tripod mast. Each turret was also fitted with a 15-foot rangefinder. The main armament...
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    bridge and air operations control center. It was fitted with a small tripod mast that mounted one of the ship's radar antennas. The ship was designed...
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    and air-operations control center. The island was fitted with a small tripod mast intended to carry the ship's fire-control system. Fifteen different types...
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    was chosen using computer simulation of the radar cross section. The tripod mast and 76 mm gun also have stealth features. Three LM500-G07 gas turbine...
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    include: Having outriggers that are not as long as their hulls, bipod or tripod mast with a canted square sail (tanja sail), a bowsprit with a spritsail,...
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    In 1919, Bretagne was equipped with a heavy tripod mast; Provence and Lorraine were given tripod masts in the early 1920s. Four of Bretagne's boilers...
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    and the bridge structure was enlarged around the base of the forward tripod mast. During the first year of World War I, the base of the forward superstructure...
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    bridge and air operations control center. It was fitted with a small tripod mast that mounted one of the ship's radar antennas. The ship was designed...
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    main mast, and aft. The forecastle deck extended back to the second funnel and the main superstructure was constructed without the ungainly tripod mast seen...
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    single and tripod masts Makassar benawa with tanja sails on removable tripod masts and a jib Makassar padewakang with tanja sails on bipod masts Micronesian...
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    scrapping at Kearny, New Jersey. A promise was made to save the distinctive tripod mast for inclusion in the Naval Academy's new football stadium, but was never...
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    base of the forward tripod mast. During the first year of the war, a fire-control director was installed high on the forward tripod mast. Around the same...
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    a 15-foot (4.6 m) rangefinder. The other director was on top of the tripod mast and was equipped with a 9-foot (2.7 m). The main armament could be controlled...
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    had to be removed. The electronics were modernized and the mast was replaced by a tripod mast. When the six destroyers were later in dock, the initially...
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    Bofors guns remained. The electronics were modernized and the mast was replaced by a tripod mast. All five ships were retrofitted with two triple Mark 44 torpedo...
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    capacity. Wyoming and Arkansas lost their cage main mast, which was replaced by a short tripod mast that carried searchlights and radio antennas. Some...
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    means a round lashing of rope or iron hardware to attach a mast to a boat or ship. The tripod lashing (also known as gyn lashing, figure of eight lashing...
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    of the funnels to reduce the problem in the spotting top and a second tripod mast was added to handle the derrick, but it had to be positioned in front...
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    removable bipod masts Makassar benawa with tanja sails on removable tripod masts and a jib Makassar padewakang with tanja sails on bipod masts Micronesian...
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