foul anchor

America had a slow start due to a fouled anchor and was well behind when she finally got under way.

Often harbormasters have a fouled anchor or other local symbol on the gold rings.

I've gone down, with a coral-rock to sink me, in a hundred and ten feet to clear a fouled anchor.

However, all other uniforms use the fouled anchor device to denote rank.

A foul anchor won't take Lawrence long,' muttered Jack.

The obverse depicts an eagle holding a fouled anchor over a globe.

There'll be a few foul berths and fouled anchors in here before the night's out!'

Instead of the baton and sword or foul anchor, civil branch epaulettes substituted a star.

A leading rating is often called a "killick", referring to the rank insignia of a fouled anchor.

An eagle clutching a fouled anchor with thirteen six-pointed stars above was used on uniform buttons starting in 1804.

The neatly stacked sheets of fine paper bore her newly granted sigil, a sword and a fouled anchor.

Foul Anchor is a village in Cambridgeshire, England.

He clapped his hands once and sat behind a massive desk carved with looping ropes and fouled anchors.

As he weighed the bulky packet in one hand, looking at the fouled anchor Admiralty seal, he savoured the moment.

The eagle stands for a proud country, the globe signifies worldwide service, and the fouled anchor signifies naval tradition.

Navigating branch epaulettes were the same as the military branch, but with crossed plain anchors in place of the foul anchor.

Fouled anchors and shields, centered on naval aviators wings, honor the ship's namesake's aviation history.

The sail is set into a pavement of pale grey granite, with a fouled anchor symbol inlaid in contrasting black granite.

He also established appointment standards and designed the Marine Hospital Service herald of a fouled anchor and caduceus.

The west wall continues with St. Margaret of Scotland in the upper light surrounded by fouled anchor and thistle roundels.

The seal consisted of a fouled anchor, to represent the seamen cared for by the Service, and the caduceus of Mercury.

The insignia worn by leading rates is a single fouled anchor, leading to the slang term killick or hooky used in reference to this rate.

They wear the same cap insignia as petty officers: a foul anchor surrounded by a wreath of laurel, surmounted by a crown.

Chief Customs Officer (Wreathed fouled anchor)

Deck officers wear a foul anchor above the stripes on their epaulettes and engineering officers wear a three-bladed propeller.