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Instead, he had returned to the deck by way of the anchor chain.

At 20:30 the anchor chain broke in a Force 9 storm.

Then I had a better thought, and spent a few minutes putting the anchor chain back under the mattress.

Within seconds, the anchor chain was pulled up from the depths.

Draw the end of the anchor chain through the buoy.

Above his head stretched a few yards more of greasy anchor chain.

The rumble had been the anchor chain running out.

Not even a shackle of anchor chain to weight the corpse down.

The anchor chain broke and her rudder was beaten off.

Maybe it's the giant rosaries fashioned out of anchor chain.

In half a minute he released the anchor chain and ran on down the corridor, meeting no resistance now.

By the end of 1998 there had been several unsuccessful attempts to attract the required national anchor chains.

An anchor chain could be defined as the easiest tensioner.

Thomas retrieved the cooler, took the body out, and wrapped the anchor chains around it.

The clank of the anchor chain started up again.

She swung round gently and snubbed at her anchor chain.

The ship's gun was properly trained in and secured, as were the anchor chains.

Only the anchor chain, windlass and cement barrels were found.

During the following night, a storm broke her anchor chains and she ran aground.

Her first two salvos did nothing more than sever an anchor chain.

A small pipe placed at the bow leads to the anchor chain locker.

It came again; the clink of the anchor chain.

Then he gave orders to slip the anchor chain and rang the engine room to back the ship.

While she was anchored, conditions deteriorated to a point where both anchor chains parted.

The simplest motion compensator is the anchor chain of a ship.