NOUN | an anchor cable | anchor cables | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- A second "cat head" was associated with a ship's anchor-cable and windlass.
- The unit is named after the length of a ship's anchor cable in the Age of Sail.
- When "Empress of Australia" moved forward, her port propeller fouled in the anchor cable of the freighter.
- In the days of hemp anchor cable, worming of chain was used, when anchoring on a rocky bottom, to protect the anchor cable from chafing through.
- One of the primary characteristics of this technique is the use of a swivel as follows: the first anchor is set normally, and the vessel drops back to the limit of anchor cable.
- Ox carts carried most of the supplies except for the 4-ton anchor cable for the USS "Superior".
- As ships and their anchors grew in size, the anchor cable or chain would be too big to go around the capstan.
- These sawlogs caught on the anchor cable, pulling the steamer down.
- In the engagement "Chub" lost her main boom and bowsprit, and had her anchor cable severed.
- The lifeboat was unable to reach the yacht even with its anchor cable fully paid out.
- In 2014 a dive vessel, owned by Danish firm Offshore Marine Services, was carrying out routine inspection work when an anchor cable broke and the ship hit one of 102 turbines installed at the Walney Offshore Wind Farm.
- He got the rest of the pinnace's crew aboard and ordered the Portuguese crew shackled to the anchor cable.
- Early in the battle he used the spring on his anchor cable to angle his broadside into a raking position across the bow of Nelson's flagship, HMS "Vanguard", which consequently suffered over 100 casualties, including Nelson, wounded by a piece of shot in the forehead.
- The arrangement of the guns precluded the usual arrangement where the anchor cable led into the main deck; in "Hercules" these cables led into the upper deck; she was the first battleship to be so fitted.
- Five of the six anchor cables had broken, the one remaining cable preventing the rig from capsizing.
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