This photo provided by Kurt Schleicher shows the schooner Grace Bailey with its main mast broken off the coast of Rockland, Maine, on Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. Credit: Kurt Schleicher via AP

One person died and three people were injured after a mast buckled and fell on the Grace Bailey schooner on Monday.

The top of one of the 118-foot schooner’s two masts broke suddenly on Monday morning while the boat was off the Rockland Breakwater, according to the Courier-Gazette.

One woman with a serious head injury was taken off the schooner when emergency personnel arrived in Coast Guard boats. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Three other people were brought ashore, and transported to local hospitals.

The schooner, which is partly owned by sitcom actor Marc Evan Jackson according to the Rockland newspaper, was towed back to shore. The Coast Guard will investigate the damage.

Leela Stockley is an alumna of the University of Maine. She lives in northern Maine with her two pugs and a cat. Send videos and photo submissions to lstockley@bangordailynews.com.