anchor winch

Are you ready to heave on the anchor winches?

Except for the anchor winch, the winches aboard are not power operated.

Presently the anchor winch began to grind in chain.

When the load- bearing wire returned, she attached it to the anchored winch.

I'll string it to the anchor winch.

At the foremost point of the yacht, he stepped into the slightly depressed well in which was mounted the anchor winch.

Ammunition from a gun aft had been blown forward to the forecastle head near the anchor winch.

When she went back down with the cable and tied it around the upper log, I used the anchor winch to lift it.

At around 01:50, the deck officer noticed around 100 sailors gathered near the anchor winches, blocking them from use.

A standard stocked anchor was stowed in the forward compartment alongside the anchor winch.

Oiling fairleads were fitted to the edge of the hull by the anchor winch.

Anchor winches manned.

A deeply anchored winch on the far side of the concrete slab growled into life, and the cable started to crawl out of the sea.

Similarly on deck and on the navigational side we had all that was necessary but everything was very basic down to the manual anchor winch.

Gomja sat on the anchor winch, cut patches from the coarse fabric, and sewed up the holes in his uniform.

She climbed the three steps up into the pilothouse and disappeared down the hatch at the other end of it, while he turned toward the anchor winch.

When Baker had power on the ship, the anchor winches would be used to kedge Golden Adventurer off the bank.

The ship beached at Aitape at sunrise on 23 April but damaged her anchor winch.

A 45lb (20kg) plough anchor is carried, but the yacht is not fitted with an anchor winch.

One of the survivors testified in his deposition that moments before the capsize, he had seen the ship's chief engineer at one of the ship's other anchor winches.

As he swam over the deck, heading for the stern, Alex looked down on the dark green surfaces, the twisting ladders and rails, the anchor winches and blast roof.

The anchor winch is motorized, and the anchor is mounted at the stern, allowing a grounded S90N to tow itself afloat rather than risk damage to its impellers.

The anchor winches on Saipem's Semac 1 pipe laying barge, for example, each hold 2,800 metres of 76mm (3 inch) diameter wire rope in 14 layers.

Mr. Johnson and the expedition team was able to locate the propeller and rudder, an anchor winch, the ship's groundbreaking electrical generation equipment as well as the gash in the left side of the hull.

Even above the storm, they heard Golden Adventurer groan, the steel of her hull protesting at the weight of water in her and the intolerable pressure of the anchor winches and Warlock's tow cable.