anchors

Stubb and Flask mounted on them, and passing additional lashings over the anchors there hanging.

As long as it went through more frequented waters, we often saw the hulls of shipwrecked vessels that were rotting in the depths, and deeper down cannons, bullets, anchors, chains, and a thousand other iron materials eaten up by rust.

The Jessie was plunging madly to two anchors, and every second or third sea broke clear over her bow.

The car and its accessories, the anchors, the cords, the supplies, the water-tanks, which were to be filled on arriving, all were embarked and put away under Ferguson's own eyes.

Before an anchor can ever be raised, it must be let go; and this perfectly obvious truism brings me at once to the subject of the degradation of the sea language in the daily press of this country.

At the same instant I saw that the thing that had struck us was the trailing anchor of a rather fair-sized air vessel; possibly a ten man cruiser.

And all this seemed natural enough; especially as in the merchant service many captains never show themselves on deck for a considerable time after heaving up the anchor, but remain over the cabin table, having a farewell merrymaking with their shore friends, before they quit the ship for good with the pilot.

"I expect the ship will have its own anchor," said the Doctor.

anchored off Gibraltar, which looks familiar and home-like."

Thence, bearing generally south-east and making slow progress in the dead beat to windward, the Ariel dropped anchor in nearly every harbour of the Solomons, from Choiseul and Ronongo islands, to the islands of Kulambangra, Vangunu, Pavuvu, and New Georgia.

In her bows lay a tiny anchor, two jugs of water, and some seventy fathoms of thin, brown dory-roding.

On the evening of the 12th of February, the Tonquin anchored in the bay of Karakakooa, in the island of Owyhee.