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Stream Anchor |
| A stream anchor was a small anchor used by ships in rivers or harbours. |
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Besides carrying a sheet anchor, belt bower anchor and small bower anchor, an eighteenth-century naval vessel carried a number of smaller anchors for moving it within a harbour or river when there no room or wind for sailing. These were called the stream, kedge and grappling anchors. Stream and kedge anchors often had a removable stock making them easier to stow and able to be deployed at any point off the vessel, or carried out in a ship's boat to a suitable anchorage point. Grappling anchors were small and designed to anchor a ship's boats. |
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Published by South Seas, 1 February 2004 Comments, questions, corrections and additions: Paul.Turnbull@jcu.edu.au Prepared by: Paul Turnbull Updated: 28 June 2004 To cite this page use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ss-biogs-P000358 |