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"Take an axe to the anchor cable and cut us free."

And that could mean only one thing: the anchor cables were a deception.

The crew cut the anchor cable so the ship could run out to sea.

We'll let the anchor cable run to save time.

However within half an hour, the main anchor cable parted followed by the secondary one.

"He's going to be putting springs on his anchor cables.

As she waited, she began to study the anchor cables around her.

A seaman sitting there would hear someone climbing the anchor cable.

The forecastle watch caught the boy climbing the anchor cable.

All that amount of anchor cable ranged on the foredeck.

Rossi snubbed up the anchor cable to stop any more running out.

Then take her in and latch on to the frigate's anchor cable."

However, the anchor cable broke and they were obliged to take the diver back on board before he could carry out any work.

It bit through the anchor cable, and Kukon was free to move.

She had reserved for herself the instruments which reported the status of their linkage to the anchor cable.

With a few axe strokes they severed their anchor cables, and tried to bear away.

One of the blazing galleys drifted free as her anchor cable burned through.

Swam out to us one night, climbed the anchor cable and hid away till we were at sea.

A swivel is attached to the middle of the anchor cable, and the vessel connected to that.

Then they ran the heaviest anchor cables under her hull as slings.

The lifeboat was unable to reach the yacht even with its anchor cable fully paid out.

The bag was grounded to its anchor cable.

At eleven o'clock the anchor cable, already severed behind the bits, was let go.

In those days, the anchor cable was made of hemp and could be cut, allowing an escaping vessel to run before the wind.

But the Wabbler had no anchor cable for the sweep to catch.