Anchor

The well known iron or steel implement of various patterns, lowered by means of a cable (usually chain) to the bottom of a river, bay or sea, where it enters and bites the ground; used for holding a ship stationary; or to offer a fixed point, to which a ve el may be drawn by means of the attached cable and some power obtained as through a windla or capstan. See Plate 64. The anchors carried by merchant ve els are termed Bowers or Bower anchors; Stream or Stream-anchor; Kedges, or Kedge-anchors. The following tables show the number of each kind usually carried and their approximate weight ex. stock.