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• n  the mast nearest the bow in vessels with two or more masts

• Domelike direction finders and "tropo-scattering" sensors (which can "read" signals bouncing from the troposphere) are mounted on the foremast to analyze those signals and to .
• The subsequent blast gutted the ship, and the foremast and forward superstructure began to collapse.
• Except for a few lights on her foremast, North Carolina was dark, as she and her destroyer escorts had been every night.