The British ship Typhoon, iron built, from Glasgow, bound to Australia, with 224 emigrants, put into Lisbon, Portugal, on the 6th ult., to repair damages, having lost her bow-sprit and foremast, and her main and mizen topniasts. This ship is iron masted, and it is said the gale waa not such but that wooden masts would have stood it out easily.
This article was originally published with the title "Iron Masts in a Gale" in Scientific American 8, 10, 76 (November 1852)
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican11201852-76f