stockless anchor

A stockless anchor can be seen but it is well hidden in the wreckage.

The club's crest includes stockless anchor with a football ball.

The two ship's stockless anchors weighed five tons each.

A stockless anchor or a patent anchor is a type of anchor.

This procedure, before the days of the stockless anchor, was known as catting the anchor .

Stockless anchors have been extensively used in the British mercantile marine and in some other navies.

The stockless anchor, patented in England in 1821, represented the first significant departure in anchor design in centuries.

On a highly polished background stands a stockless anchor, a piece of equipment familiar to all seafarers, this nautical symbol is encompassed by its heavy cable.

While there are numerous variations, stockless anchors consist of a set of heavy flukes connected by a pivot or ball and socket joint to a shank.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the stockless anchors principally in use in the British navy are Hall's improved, Byer's, and Wasteneys Smith's.

Crest: The stockless anchor is one of the distinguishing features of the Navy's Medal of Honor and is also an ancient symbol of the sea.

According to Mr. Groeger, the wide, curved arms indicate that it is what is known as a stock anchor, built sometime in the mid-1800's, before modern welding techniques created the more streamlined stockless anchor.

In contrast to the elaborate stowage procedures for earlier anchors, stockless anchors are simply hauled up until they rest with the shank inside the hawsepipes, and the flukes against the hull (or inside a recess in the hull).

Crest: On a wreath of the colors gold and azure a demi-sun gules below a fire-bomb proper flanked by two green palm fronds and surmounted by a gold stockless anchor between two demi-arrows proper.

On the other hand a larger hawsepipe is required, and there appears to be a consensus that a stockless anchor, when "let go" does not hold so quickly as a stocked one, is more uncertain in its action over uneven ground, and is more liable to "come home" (drag).

Bending low, Tom pulled up the rond-anchor [A rond-anchor is a stockless anchor with only one fluke for mooring to the rond or bank], coiled its rope as carefully as if it were his own, and laid anchor and coiled rope silently on the after-deck.